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Title: Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956
Subjects: South America -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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h overthe unprotected Bolivian highv/ays, assured us thathe had never been molested by any of these high-waymen because he never troubled them in any wayeither by carrying arms or spreading information oftheir doings. If the Bolivian bandits are half as badas they were painted to us that night, Don Santiagomust lead a charmed life for he and his stages cer-tainly offer an easy mark for any enterprising out-law. The view from our hotel the next morning acrossthe sandy plaza of La Quiaca was anything but in-spiring. The plateau is so high and dry that nothinggrows here. Even the mountains, whose tops arereally higher than our own far-famed Pikes Peak,look stunted like low sand-hills. Partly finishedadobe houses, which were gradually meeting the de-mands of the newly-born commercial life of La Qui-aca add to the forlorn and desolate appearance ofeverything. There was nothing to make us wish tostay any longer In Argentina, and we eagerly wel-comed Don Santiago and his eight-mule team that
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ACROSS THE BOLIVIAN FRONTIER 83 rattled up to the door a few minutes after sixoclock. A quarter of a mile north of the town we crossedthe frontier and entered Bolivia. For the next fourhours there was little in the landscape to relieve themonotony of the journey. As those who are familiarwith stage travel know to their cost, bumping overrough roads of stone or sand, in a cloud of dust withnothing to see on either side except a brown, treeless,rolling plateau, is not exciting. Nevertheless theprocess of keeping eight mules on the go, up hill anddown hill, is never absolutely devoid of interest. Asit was quite impossible for the driver to reach theforemost mules with his long whip, he employed astrong-lunged boy to race alongside of the mules,pelt them with stones, curse them in his worst Span-ish, and frighten them into frantic activity with thelash of a short-handled whip which he laid on withno delicate hand. The mules became so afraid of hismad rushes that when they heard him coming

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