Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru, Vol. 10 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru, Vol. 10 BY good fortune, when a junior in Harvard College, I became a member of the party organized by Dr. Farabee to explore the in terior of Iceland during the summer of 1905. While this is not the place to tell the story of that expedition, I refer to it because it was due to my association in the field with Dr. Farabee at that time that the South American expedition which forms the subject of this volume became a reality. Both my companion, John Walter Hast ings, and myself became intensely interested in the general sub ject of anthropology, and particularly in the field work connected with it. On our way home from Iceland, we decided that there would be an expedition during the next year and that Dr. Farabee would be the leader of it. The details were worked out during the following winter. The interior of Peru, east of the Andes, was se lected as a most promising and virgin field, for this was before the days of the numerous university expeditions which have since followed one another into the South American jungle. The expedition was under the auspices of the Peabody Museum. Besides Dr. Farabee, the party consisted of Hastings and myself as ethnologists, and a surgeon, Dr. Edward Franklin Horr, who had served for a number of years in Cuba and the Philippines as an officer in the Army Medical Corps. President Roosevelt found time, amidst his numerous activities, to receive Hastings and myself at the White House, when he wished us luck, and gave us a strong personal letter to all our diplomatic officials. His Eminence, the late Cardinal Gibbons, wrote for me a letter which was an Open sesame within ecclesiastical circles at the Vati can and elsewhere. Many others, too many, unfortunately, to mention individually, in a limited space, gave evidence of their interest and good wishes toward us. In December, 1906, Dr. Fara bee, Hastings, and I sailed from New York, southward bound, fol fowed some weeks later by Dr. Horr. On our arrival in Lima, we were officially presented to the President, Senor Pardo, and hisboth Americans and Peruvians. From Lima we continued to Are quipa, where is situated the Harvard Observatory, which city became our base during the time we were in Peru. A short period was devoted to preparation for the actual field work and to short side trips to La Paz and other nearby places. Little could be learned of conditions in the interior beyond the mountains, and so the first journey was somewhat in the nature of a preliminary in vestigation of the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.