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Title: Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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belonged to a man beyond middle age,and of considerable muscular development. The general ethnic characters are thosefrequently found in aboriginal American crania, though it is rather longer andnarrower (the cephalic index being 766), and the orbits are lower and the nosewider than usual. On comparing it with a series of skulls of ancient Muiscas fromgraves in the neighbourhood of Bogota in the Museum of the Royal College ofSurgeons, it is evidently of the same general type. Unlike most of the old skullsfrom the locality near which it was found it presents no sign of artificial deformationduring infancy. 1 There is a small inn at Malchingi, but between that place and Otovalo thereis not, I believe, a single house. The nearest habitation farther west is theHacienda of Alchipichi, a very large establishment, situated on the south-westernslopes of Mojanda, about 1400 feet above the bottom of the Quebrada of Guallabamba.The descent to the bridge across the quebrada is exceedingly steep.
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IT ROLLED OVER AND OVER DOWN THE SLOPE, AND DISAPPEARED. CHAP. XIV. A SMASH. 285 It was getting late in the afternoon when we passed the lakesMojanda, and commenced the ascent of a long incline leading to the summit of the road.The worst of the way wasover, and Verity and Ipressed forward in advanceof the rest, to reach ourquarters in good time. Halfan hour later, while stop-ping to get some angles,we heard shouts behind,and saw Cevallos runningand gesticulating. Howit happened, Sen or, cannotbe said. I saw it falling.It has gone over a preci-pice. It is dead ! Oneof the mules had met withan accident a few minutesafter we left them. Returning together, our arriero, pointing tothe place where the fall had happened, said that the animal hadrolled over and over down the slope and disappeared. We couldsee nothing of it; for the side of the mountain (a commonplacedeclivity of earth and boulders) was broken in some places byirregularities. Cevallos and Verity descended to search, and reappe

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