The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian . Fig. 20. Fig. 19—Moss-draped trees in the rain forest near Abra Tocate between Rosalinaand Pongo de Mainique. Fig. 20—Yavero, a rubber station on the Yavero (Paucartambo) River, a tributaryof the Urubamba. Elevation 1,600 feet (490 m.). -. Fig. 21—Clearing in the tropical forest between Rosalina and Pabellon. Thisrepresents the border region where the forest-dwelling Machiganga Indians and themountain Indians meet. The clearings are occupied by Machigangas whose chief cropsare yuca and corn; in the extre
The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian . Fig. 20. Fig. 19—Moss-draped trees in the rain forest near Abra Tocate between Rosalinaand Pongo de Mainique. Fig. 20—Yavero, a rubber station on the Yavero (Paucartambo) River, a tributaryof the Urubamba. Elevation 1,600 feet (490 m.). -. Fig. 21—Clearing in the tropical forest between Rosalina and Pabellon. Thisrepresents the border region where the forest-dwelling Machiganga Indians and themountain Indians meet. The clearings are occupied by Machigangas whose chief cropsare yuca and corn; in the extreme upper left-hand corner are grassy slopes occupiedby Quechua herdsmen and farmers who grow potatoes and corn. THE RUBBER FORESTS 25 ruin besides a fundamental change in the social order and prob-lems as complex- and wearisome as any that war can abolition was secured at frightful cost. The spirit that upheld the new founders of the western repub-lics in driving out slavery was admirable, but as much cannot besaid of their work of reconstruction. We like to pass over thosedark days in our own history. In South America there has lin-gered from the old slave-holding days down to the present, a laborsystem more insidious than slavery, yet no less revolting in its de-tails, and infinitely more difficult t
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