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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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32 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Madiera Mamore Railway, passing the great falls of the Madiera. This road, constructed at a cost of many millions of dollars and hundreds of lives, fails to fill its mission. Built as a link be- tween Bolivia and the commerce of Europe and the United States, the freight charges are so high that rubber from the upper Mamore is still packed over the Andes to the west coast with weeks of toil, and imports likewise are brought in by train and mule. We paid fifteen cents a pound for baggage over these two hundred and fifty miles of road. After this we went on to Manaos by river steamer, and from Manaos the whole length of the Amazon was tra- versed by steamer, to Para at its mouth on the Atlantic. The best shooting of our trip, from the sporting point of view ^ was at I From the scientific point of view, the best collect- ing was found at Parotain, Todos Santos and Trini- dad, points in Bolivia, where many rare forms of birds and small mammals were secured. Pampa del Arrieros in Peru, thirteen thousand feet elevation. Making this small town a base, we worked up to the snow line, which begins between eigh- teen and nineteen thousand feet above sea. Between the heights of thirteen and seventeen thousand feet we ob- tained several specimens of vicuna and guanaco. Groups of these will be mounted at the Field Museum, Chicago. Hunting in the Andes presents few diffi- culties except those due to altitude and the attendant atmospheric conditions. Above fifteen thousand feet, climbing in the rarified air is slow and laborious, and the few nights we spent in the open at these altitudes were cold and sleepless. In spite of the weather drawbacks, which made collecting often impossible and preparing specimens always difficult, the expedition was able to obtain fifteen hundred bird skins and about five hun- dred small mammals for the American Museum.
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before reaching MoUendo we visited the ruins of the ancient Peruvian city Chan Chan, near Trujillo. This formerly covered a square mile and little is known of its origin, except that it was built before the coming of the Incas. Only mud walls are left, the city having been plundered and destroyed by Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish discoverer and conqueror of Peru, who found much treasure there. On the walls rough bas-relief is still visible, the clay having stood climatic changes for five or six hundred years

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1916
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  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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