By Catharine Hamm | Los Angeles Times Travel Editor
29. Hiram Bingham said in his Harper's Monthly story, published in 1913, that a "local muleteer" may have been in Machu Picchu in 1902, based on scrawls he found on a wall. It seemed clear that even if the Spanish didn't know it existed, others certainly did.
From Wikipedia...
A muleteer (in Spanish language arriero and in Catalan language traginer) is a person who works full or part-time transporting merchandise or luggage with the help of pack animals. In South America, arriero signifies people who, in the absence of good roads that could permit the use of wheeled vehicles, transported all sort of items, such as coffee, maize, cork or wheat, through the paisa region (Antioquia and the Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis) with their mules from the eighteenth century to the present time.
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