Photo by Hiram Bingham 



AN INTERESTING CORNER: MACHU PICCHU 



Back of the Chief Temple and adjoining it are 

 the ruins of a small house probably occupied by the 

 High Priest. The picture shows a portion of the 

 exterior of its western wall. Part of this wall is 

 made of a single stone, which is cut into 32 angles 

 and corners. 



The photographer thought that 

 the map looked rather badly with 

 all these pencil-marks on it, and a 

 telegram was sent to the director, 

 requesting permission to erase all 

 pencil-marks. This telegram was 

 received six weeks later, on my re- 

 turn from a difficult journey into 

 the interior. 



It was then too late to save Air. 

 Bumstead's work, for the photog- 

 rapher, impatient at the delay, and 

 not receiving permission to clean 

 the map, had gone ahead on his 

 own responsibility and erased what 

 a month of careful field-work could 

 not replace. As Mr. Bumstead says 

 in his report : 



". . . Only one who has seen 

 his patient and painstaking work 

 destroyed can imagine mv feelines 

 when I returned to Cuzco witnm 

 about a week of the time when the 

 new Peruvian government said we 

 must stop all our work — weary and 

 almost discouraged from a trip that 

 had ended in profitless waiting in a 

 leaky tent for a cold rain to stop 

 and permit the work to proceed 

 through a region where the rainy 

 season had set in in good earnest — 

 only to find that all the above men- 

 toined penciling on the Cuzco Val- 

 ley map had been completely and 

 absolutely lost." 



inhabited region, quite a little of Mr. 

 Bumstead's work was unintentionally de- 

 stroyed. It was necessary for him to 

 leave the Cuzco Basin and work on the 

 Andine cross-section before the Cuzco 

 map was completed. This was occasioned 

 by the rapid approach of the rainy sea- 

 son. Arrangements were made with the 

 chief engineer of the Southern railways 

 to have the map photographed. The 

 permanent contour lines were inked in, 

 but all streams, roads, ruins, terraces, 

 plane-table locations, and many geograph- 

 ical names and all elevations were left on 

 the sheet in pencil. 



HAMPERED EOR LACK OE TIME 



The new Peruvian government 

 had stipulated in their decree that 

 all the work of excavating and ex- 

 ploring must cease on the first of 

 December, and the local authorities were 

 directed to see to it that this order was 

 carried out. In the limited time that re- 

 mained it was impossible to finish the 

 map of the Cuzco Valley as carefully as 

 it had been begun. 



It was decided, however, that it would 

 be much better to map the area needed 

 by the geologist as well as it could be 

 done before the day set by the govern- 

 ment for the conclusion of our work. 

 Accordingly, great pains have been taken 

 to show the true character of the topog- 

 raphy. 



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