A New York Times article that is worth something!!
How the Inca Leapt Canyons
Exploration in the Land of the Incas” by E. George Squier (Harper and
Brothers); Angel Franco/The New York Times
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Conquistadors from Spain came, they saw and
they were astonished. They had never seen anything in Europe like the
bridges of Peru.
Chroniclers wrote that the Spanish soldiers stood in awe and fear
before the spans of braided fiber cables suspended across deep gorges
in the Andes, narrow walkways sagging and swaying and looking so frail.
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