curing diseases among the In- 

 dians in their employ. Very few 

 Peruvians are properly vacci- 

 nated. 



STRANGE MODE OF VACCIXATIOX 



The Indians believe that vacci- 

 nation with pus from the lesions 

 of a patient who has died with 

 smallpox confers immunity from 

 the disease. They practice this 

 sort of vaccination, with the re- 

 sult that many who are thus in- 

 oculated die from the disease. 



There is no attempt made to 

 isolate the smallpox or typhoid 

 patients. Neighbors mingle freelv 

 in the huts where the diseases 

 exist, and at the funeral of the 

 dead they have feasts in which 

 every one partakes, many using 

 common cups and dishes. The 

 clothes of the dead are washed 

 in the same stream from which 

 the people in the villages get their 

 drinking water. There are no 

 windows in the highland huts. 

 and there is no attempt at clean- 

 liness in the dark interiors. Of 

 course, fumigation is unknown 

 and vermin abound. 



On many of the large plan- 

 tations conditions are better. 

 There the owners of the estates 

 vaccinate their Indian tenants 

 and laborers. In some of the 

 villages a priest will vaccinate a 

 few during his annual or semi- 

 annual visit, so that some do get 

 the benefit of protection from 

 smallpox. In the cities, on the 

 other hand, while many are vac- 

 cinated, there are many who are 

 not, so that even in Cuzco small- 

 pox was raging during our stay ; and. 

 furthermore, practically no attempt was 

 being made at isolation or any other 

 measure to prevent the spread of the 

 epidemic. 



Notwithstanding many hardshii)s and 

 the presence of a considerable amount 

 of illness in southern Peru, all the mem- 

 bers of our party worked hard and faith- 

 fully, and the general results of the ex- 

 pedition were highly satisfactory. 



i'huto by Hiram Bingham 



CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION : LIMA, PERU 



After Benediction had been given on the corner of 

 the plaza, the procession moved slowly toward the 

 cathedral. The "conflict of old and new" is vividly 

 emphasized in this picture, where the repair wagon of 

 the trolley line is seen at the right only a few feet from 

 this religious procession so redolent of the middle ages. 

 The towers of the cathedral are made of plaster and 

 lath. In this land of earthquakes it was not considered 

 safe to huild them of stone. 



RESULTS ACHIEVED BY THE EXPEDITIO.X 



The work actually accomplished may 

 be grouped under the following heads : 

 (i) Machu Picchu; its archeology and 

 osteology, and the topography and for- 

 estration of the surrounding region (see 

 pages 402 to 517). 



(2) The Cuzco region; its geology, 

 osteology, and topography, with special 

 reference to the age of its vertebrate re- 

 mains (see pages 400 to 50<"i)- 



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