Photo by Hiram Bingham 



ROCK CARVING AT NUSTA ESPANA 



A detail of some of the carving on the great monolith at ftusta Espana. These project- 

 ing stones remind one of Machu Picchu, where they are frequently in evidence, and seem to 

 have been used for practical as well as ornamental and religious purposes. 



quirau, and the green cane fields in the 

 province of Abancay, on the other side. 



''From a purely artistic point of view 

 the country was wonderful, with its 

 splendid ranges of gleaming white peaks 

 all covered by glaciers, and the dark 

 green of the jungle below leading down 

 into straight-sided valleys with streams 

 white with foam running down them. 

 From the point of view of one who had 

 to travel through it for the purpose of 

 getting to a place, location unknown, and 

 making a trail to that place, it was any- 

 thing but lovely. 



"After looking my fill and taking com- 

 pass readings on Yanama and various 

 prominent points, we started down. There 

 had been condors swinging above us ever 

 since we had reached the high point, and 

 now one flew quite close. I fired at him 

 with the 22 Winchester automatic, and 

 for a moment thought he was going to 

 fall. He recovered his balance, however, 

 and went sailing off; but after traveling 

 about half a mile he suddenly collapsed 

 and fell, turning over and over and over 

 into the brush, where, after quite a hunt, 

 we found him, dead. 



"He was a splendid bird, spreading a 

 little over 9 feet 6 inches and measuring 



4 feet from bill to tail tip. This shot 

 showed both the hitting power of the 

 little 2.2 and the wonderful vitality of the 

 condor. The mushroom bullet had gone 

 through breast and breast-bone, lungs, 

 liver, and intestines, lodging against a 

 thigh-bone. Tomas carried the bird back 

 to the hacienda, where the prowess of 

 the little rifle caused much admiration. 

 We took off the skin and spread it to 

 dry on one of the frames built to jerk 

 meat, of which there were several in the 

 yard. Next morning it was nowhere to 

 be seen, and, as the mayor-domo said 

 that it was no use looking for it, I sur- 

 mised that he knew where it was and 

 agreed with him. . . ." 



trouble; with bears and jungIvE plies 



Dr. Eaton's party had some trouble 

 with hungry bears, which broke open a 

 food box and devoured a quantity of pre- 

 cious provisions. These bears belong to 

 the spectacled-bear genus, and, although 

 plentiful in this region, are extremely shy 

 and hard to get a shot at. 



The perils of the trail were many, but 

 the most serious handicap, as every ex- 

 plorer has found in this region before, 

 and the most annoying thing they had to 



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