The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian . ibutaries enterfrom the desert there may be huge banks of mud or broad triangu-lar fans covered with raw, infertile earth. The picture is gener-ally touched with color—a yellow, haze-covered horizon on the baredesert above, brown lava flows suspended on the brink of the val-ley, gray-brown cliffs, and greens ranging from the dull shade ofalgarrobo, olive and fig trees, to the bright shade of freshly irri-gated alfalfa pastures. After several months work on the cold highlands, where werode almost daily in
The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian . ibutaries enterfrom the desert there may be huge banks of mud or broad triangu-lar fans covered with raw, infertile earth. The picture is gener-ally touched with color—a yellow, haze-covered horizon on the baredesert above, brown lava flows suspended on the brink of the val-ley, gray-brown cliffs, and greens ranging from the dull shade ofalgarrobo, olive and fig trees, to the bright shade of freshly irri-gated alfalfa pastures. After several months work on the cold highlands, where werode almost daily into hailstorms or wearisome gales, we came atlength to the border of the valley country. It will always seem tome that the weather and the sky conspired that afternoon to re-ward us for the months of toil that lay behind. And certainlythere could be no happier place to receive the reward than on thebrink of the lava plateau above Chuquibamba. There was prom-ise of an extraordinary view in the growing beauty of the sky,and we hurried our tired beasts forward so that the valley below no.
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