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Title: The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 American Geographical Society of New York
Subjects: Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911) Physical geography Geology Human geography
Publisher: (New York) Pub. for the American Geographical Society of New York by H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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company was mixed.They were all Peruvians, but of a sort not found in such relativeabundance elsewhere. The defeated and the outcast, as well asthe pioneer, go down eventually to the hot forested lands wheremen are forgotten. While he saw gold in every square mile of his forested region,my clerical friend saw misery also. The brutal treatment of theIndians by the whites of the Madre de Dios country he could speakof only as a man reviving a painful memory. The Indians at thestation loved him devotedly. There was only justice and kind-ness in all his dealings. Because he had large interests to lookafter, he knew all the members of the tribe, and his word was lawin no hackneyed sense. A kindlier man never lived in the rubberforest. His influence as a high-souled man of business was vastlygreater than as a missionary in this frontier society. He coulddaily illustrate by practical example what he had formerly beenable only to preach. He thought the life of the Peruvian cities debasing. The
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