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Updated: June 12, 2025
No wonder we were so long in making the crossing, when there were over one hundred in all, with numerous articles of baggage. "I shall never forget the sensations I experienced in making the passage of the huaro. I had felt giddy enough in going over the `soga' bridges and `barbacoas' common throughout Peru, but the passage of the huaro is really a gymnastic feat of no easy accomplishment.
The answer was, that it would have cost us a twenty miles' journey to have reached a point no nearer our destination than the other end of the huaro rope! No wonder such pains had been taken to ferry the party across. "We reached the heights late in the evening. The hunt would not begin until the next day.
"I at first felt inclined to treat this piece of information as a joke: but it proved that the priest was in earnest. It was full two hours before we were all crossed with our bag and baggage. "The huaro was nothing more than a thick, rope stretched across the chasm, and made fast at both ends.
That would no doubt be explained when we had reached the scene of the chacu, and I forbore to trouble my companions with any interrogatories, as I had enough to do to guide my horse along the slippery path we were travelling. "About a mile from the village there was a sudden halt. I inquired the cause. "`The huaro, was the reply.
"I knew the huaro to be the name of a peculiar kind of bridge, and I learnt that one was here to be crossed. I rode forward, and found myself in front of the huaro. A singular structure it was. I could scarcely believe in the practicability of our getting over it. The padre, however, assured me it was a good one, and we should all be on the other side in a couple of hours!
"This slow and laborious method of crossing streams is not uncommon in many parts of the Andes. It occurs in retired and thinly-populated districts, where there is no means for building bridges of regular construction. Of course, the traveller himself only can be got over by the huaro.
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