The Belgians are setting about the task of combating the shortage of labour with almost Teutonic thoroughness and far-sightedness. - Hiram Bingham III

... after six hours and a half of climbing from Camp No. 4, we stood on the top of .
We found the top almost flat for an area of nearly an acre. It is oval in shape, 100 feet north and south, and 175 feet east and west. It falls off rather abruptly on the north side, moderately on the west, and very gently for some distant to the south and east.
It is almost impossible to describe the view. Snow-capped ranges lay to the north and east. Isolated peaks covered with snow and occasional glaciers sprang up here and there in the great desert solitudes, but there was hardly an atom of green to be seen anywhere. We stood on top and in the middle of a dead world. Not even a was in sight. We might have been on the moon.

Speaking generally, it may be said that the authorities of the Union Minière are in advance of the Mining Companies in this Territory [Rhodesia] in the care and attention they give to recruited labour.

Agustín Lizárraga is discoverer of Machu Picchu and lives at San Miguel Bridge just before passing