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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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her than withthe Argentine lines. This breach of faith on the partof the Bolivianos was naturajly resented not only inArgentina but also by the southern Bolivianos them-selves who would be much more benefited by hav- 8o ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA ing good connections with Buenos Aires than withthe Chilean seaboard. As a result of this difficulty, the Argentinos, at thetime of my visit, had not carried their railway be-yond the frontier. This makes La Quiaca the out-fitting point for mule-trains that now start herewith merchandise destined for the cities of southernBolivia. A stage-line has been opened, running once a weekto Tupiza, where it connects with stages for Uyunion the Antofagasta line and Potosi. This stage-linewas owned and operated by that same energeticScotchman, Don Santiago Hutcheon, who used torun stages between La Paz and Oruro before thecompletion of the Bolivia Railway. By great goodfortune, we found him in La Quiaca where he had ar-rived that day on one of his own stages.
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I CHAPTER VII ACROSS THE BOLIVIAN FRONTIER SOON after our arrival at La Quiaca, at 9 P. M. onNovember 15, 1908, we received a call from tworough-looking Anglo-Saxons who told us hair-raisingstories of the dangers of the Bolivian roads wherehighway robbers driven out of the United States bythe force of law and order and hounded to death allover the world by Pinkerton detectives, had founda pleasant resting-place in which to pursue theirchosen occupation without let or hindrance. Wefound out afterwards that one of our informants wasone of this same gang of robbers. Either he decidedthat we were disposed to regard his pals in a suffi-ciently lenient manner to make our presence in Boli-via immaterial to them, or else he came to the con-clusion that we had nothing worth stealing, for wewere allowed to proceed peaceably and without anyannoyance wherever we journeyed in Bolivia. Heput the case quite emphatically to us that it wasnecessary for them to make a living, that they werenot allowed

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