Photo by Hiram liingham 



A ROADSIDE SCENE NEAR CHINCIIEROS 



Looking toward the Uriibamba Valley from a point near Chincheros. There are almost 

 no wire fences in this country, the place of barbed wire being taken by thorny hedge plants 

 which include cacti, thorn bushes, and agaves, or century plants, as shown in the picture. 



THE ENGIXHERS' C.\MI' XE.\K PUOUU'RA 



Photo by L. T. Nelson 



Owing to the prevalence of an epidemic of smallpox and typhoid in Puquiura, one 

 engineering party, that had the misfortune to lose its tent by fire, made its camp in a 

 cave said by the natives to have been an Inca prison. It was not very comfortable, but it 

 was dry and it was sanitary. 



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