Photo by Uiraiii Jiingluiin 



A VIEW OF PAXTA MOUNTAIN' 



Between Pasaje on the Apurimac and Lucma lies a remarkable mountain region of 

 glaciers and snowy peaks, of which the finest is Panta Mountain. Tlie making of the map 

 in this vicinity was accompanied by great hardships and innumerable difficulties. 



path, fell into the soft snow up to their 

 ears, floundered around and atteinpted to 

 stampede, and rolled down the side of 

 the mountain. It was nearly half an 

 hour before we got them safely back on 

 the trail again, where they stood trem- 

 bling- and unwilling to attempt the de- 

 scent. Coaxing and curses were equally 

 of no avail. Pulling, hauling, and beat- 

 ing were alternately resorted to. 



Somehow or other, chiefly because our 

 trail lay down hill, so that when they fell 

 and floimdered off the path they always 

 landed a little nearer to their goal than 

 when they had started, we eventually got 

 the mules to the foot of the declivity, but 

 onlv after several narrow escapes and 

 three hours of hard work. As we looked 

 back up the trail it seemed that perhaps 

 1,500 feet would be a more exact esti- 

 mate of the height of the snow-covered 

 slope. 



Just at dusk we reached the first hut in 

 the valley, and found that we were in one 

 of the upper branches of the Chamana 

 River, a trilnitary of the Urubamba, 

 which Mr. Tucker, of the 191 1 expedi- 

 tion, had reconnoitered the preceding 

 vcar. 



DISCOVERY OP THE PICTOGRAPHIC ROCK. 



In this valley was the third group of 

 ruins which we had been told about. 

 Their most unusual feature lay in the 

 fact that the Incas, desiring to save as 

 much of the upland valley floor as pos- 

 sible for agricultural purposes, had 

 straightened the bed of the meandering 

 stream and inclosed it in a stone-lined 

 channel, making it practically perfectly 

 straight for nearly three-quarters of a 

 mile. 



The valley is still used to a certain 

 extent for raising and freezing potatoes. 

 The owner of the hut near which we 

 camped entertained our Indian guide in 

 compensation for his assistance in spread- 

 ing potatoes to be frozen that night some 

 distance below us in the valley bottom. 

 The next day our guide took us back up 

 the valley and out through a smaller 

 tributary, where we crossed the divide 

 between the I'rubamba and Apurimac 

 vallevs and descended toward the town 

 of Limatambo. 



This was one of the most fortunate 

 accidents of the trip, for had we decided 

 to go down the Chamana over Mr. Tuck- 



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