The Andes of southern Peru . Fig. 2. Fig. 1—Tropical vegetation, clearing on the river bank and rubber station atPongo de Mainique. The pronounced scarp on the northeastern border of the Andesis seen in the right background. Fig. 2—Pushing a heavy dugout against the current in the rapids below Pongo deMainique. The Indian boy and his father in the canoe had been accidentally Fig. 3—From ice to sugar cane, Urubaniba Valley, at Colpani. On tlie north-eastern border of the Cordillera Vilcapampa looking upstream. In the extreme back-ground and thirteen sixteenths of an inch from the top of
The Andes of southern Peru . Fig. 2. Fig. 1—Tropical vegetation, clearing on the river bank and rubber station atPongo de Mainique. The pronounced scarp on the northeastern border of the Andesis seen in the right background. Fig. 2—Pushing a heavy dugout against the current in the rapids below Pongo deMainique. The Indian boy and his father in the canoe had been accidentally Fig. 3—From ice to sugar cane, Urubaniba Valley, at Colpani. On tlie north-eastern border of the Cordillera Vilcapampa looking upstream. In the extreme back-ground and thirteen sixteenths of an inch from the top of the picture is the sharppeak of Salcantay. Only the lower end of the more open portion of the Canyon ofXorontoy is here shown. There is a field of sugar cane in the foreground and thevalley trail is shown on the opposite side of the river. t^ THE REGIONS OF BERU 3 coastal valleys were small and dry and the men who lived therewere crowded and poor (sic). The plateau was inhabited by In-dians little better than brutes. Surely I could not think that thefine forest Indian was lower than the so-called civilized Indian ofthe plateau. There was plenty of room in the forest; and therewas wealth if you knew how to get at it. Above all you were farfrom the annoying officials of the government, and therefore coulddo much as you pleased so long as you paid your duties on rubberand di
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