THE CAMPAS 
slightly inclined to curl at the end. The nose was flat¬ 
tened at the root. They wore a few ornaments of feathers 
on the head. Their clothing consisted of a loose gown 
not unlike a Roman toga. The women were good-look¬ 
ing when very young. 
The Campas claimed to be the direct descendants of 
the Incas. There is no doubt that the Campas were 
practically the same tribe as the Antis, once a most 
powerful tribe which inhabited an extensive territory to 
the north and east of Cuzco. In fact the eastern por¬ 
tion of the Inca country was once called Anti-Suya. The 
Campas, or Antis, were formerly ferocious. They are 
now quite tame, but still retain their cruel countenances, 
resembling closely those of Polynesians and Malays. 
We left that place on January twentieth in drench¬ 
ing rain. The river was much swollen, and formed a 
whirlpool of great magnitude just over some bad rapids. 
We crossed from mountain side to mountain side, some 
400 feet above the stream, in a sling car running along 
a wire rope. The car consisted of two planks suspended 
on four pieces of telegraph wire. As the sling had been 
badly constructed it did not run smoothly along the cable. 
I had an unpleasant experience — everybody had who 
used that conveyance — as I was going across from one 
side to the other of the stream, a distance of some 200 
metres or more. The ropes which were used for pulling 
the car along got badly entangled when I had reached 
the middle of the passage. The Indians and the French¬ 
man pulled with violent jerks in order to disentangle 
them, and caused the car to swing and bump to such 
an extent that it was all I could do to hold on and not 
be flung out of it. Having been swung to and fro for 
the best part of an hour on that primitive arrangement, 
I was able to proceed on the other side of the stream. 
Fortunately we had taken the precaution of making the 
animals cross over the river the previous evening, before 
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