INTERESTING SIGHTS 
the railway rivers have been switched off through tunnels 
within the mountain, and produced picturesque cascades 
where they came out again. 
The geological surprises were continual. Next to 
mountains with perfectly horizontal strata you saw other 
mountains with strata in a vertical position, especially in 
the limestone formation. Farther down immense super¬ 
posed terraces were to be noticed upon the mountain side, 
evidently made by the ancient dwellers of that country 
for the cultivation of their inhospitable land. 
This interested me greatly. I had seen among the 
Igorrotes or head-hunters of the island of Luzon, in the 
Philippine Archipelago, that same method of irrigation, 
by collecting the water from a high point on the mountain 
side in order to irrigate consecutively the series of ter¬ 
races. Not only was I struck by the fact of finding so 
unusual a method of cultivation at two points of the 
globe so far apart, but I was even more impressed 
by the wonderful resemblance in type between the local 
natives and the inhabitants of the northern island of the 
Philippines. Undoubtedly these people came from the 
same stock. 
Where we stopped at the different stations there was 
always something interesting to observe: now the hun¬ 
dreds of llamas which had conveyed goods to the railway; 
at one place the numberless sacks of ore waiting to be 
taken to the coast; at another the tall active chimneys 
of the smelters, which suggested industry on a large scale. 
I took a number of photographs under difficulties on that 
journey down the Andes. 
At 7.30 p.m. on January 30, 1912, I arrived safely 
at Lima, a distance of 222 kilometres from Oroya. The 
total distance from Iquitos to Lima over the Andes was 
2,079 kilometres, which distance I had performed in the 
record time of one month, the time generally occupied 
by the usual travellers being from fifty to seventy days. 
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