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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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o trusts to post-house mules rarely remembersmuch of the scenery or the nature of the country.His chief impression is that of unfortunate mulescontinually being beaten in order to reach the nextpost before dark. The fourth method, and the onewe decided to adopt, Is to hire from a reputablecontractor a number of his best mules and one of hismost trusted arrieros at so much per day. In thisway, you are not hurried faster than you want to go,the mules are sure to be well cared for, and the dis-comforts of mountain travel are reduced to a mini-mum. Except on a long journey, it Is not as expensiveas buying ones own animals and is less risky.I*> Thanks to the energy of Don Santiago, the neces-sary mules and provisions were ready In two days.On his suggestion, we took with us as arrtero, oneMac, a wandering Scotchman who had seen servicein the Boer War, had drifted thence to Argentina,and was now trying his luck In southern Bolivia. Heseemed just the sort of person to make a good orderly,
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TUPIZA TO COTAGAITA 95 and we thought we were quite fortunate in securinghis services. Relying on his past experience, we toldhim to purchase such provisions as were necessaryfor the next five days. He proceeded to purchasefour dozen hard-boiled eggs and three roast fowls.These he packed carelessly in my leather saddle-bags,together with a bottle of Enos fruit salts of whichhe was very fond. The expected happened. Theeggs were reduced to an unrecognizable mass, thebottle of fruit salts was broken and the contents wellrubbed into the chicken, so that our fare for thenext two or three days was not much above theordinary. We left Tupiza on a bright, clear morning and rodenorthward through a semi-arid region where we werecontinually reminded of Utah and southern Colo-rado. For two leagues we saw no house and metno one. The floor of the valley was broad and flat,covered with sand and pebbles, and occasionallyintersected by small irrigating ditches. Almost theonly green things were cactus a

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