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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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irds that looked likeTiticaca gulls. An occasional earth-colored guinea-pig was practically the only other wild animal wecould discover. Soon after seeing the vicuiias we continued toclimb by a zigzag road until we reached the highestpoint in this journey, the ridge of Livichuco, fifteenthousand feet above the sea. Neither mules or llamasseemed to mind this altitude but we found it verychilly and disagreeable and were glad enough to de-scend as quickly as possible without wasting muchtime in enjoying the-extensive view over the rock-strewn hills about us. It may seem strange that wedid not stop to rhapsodize on the fact that we werenow leaving the basin of the Rio de la Plata, or onthe extensive panorama. But the latter was so cold,desolate, and forbidding, the only effect was to makeus urge foru ard the mules at as rapid a pace as pos-sible. The mountains were not snow-capped although,at times, we had had light storms of hail and snow.This was particularly true of the afternoons, the
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