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Title: Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ner, and go by preference into the little ditches on eachside, or even take to the wild moorland, where there is muchless risk of dislocating the ankles. The paved parts of the roadare rapidly becoming covered with grass.1 After crossing the Paramo of Sanancajas we descended intothe basin of Ambato. The litter, carried at the head of the i 1 concur in the following remarks by Mr. Church. Its great width appearsto me to be an error. I doubt if any part of it is used by five carts or carriagesper day. It is almost entirely used as a mule-track, for which it serves abundanthwell; but the neglect of the Government to keep this excellent road in repair isfast turning it into nothing but a mule-track. A year or two more, under its presentneglect, will make it impassable for carriages. . . . There are no plans in the Govern-ment < Offices of the curt-road, and the Government tells me that none exist.—Page 49of ;i Report by Mr. George Earl Church to Mr. Blaine. Washington, Feb. 15, 1883.
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CARRIED ON THE LITTER INTO AMBATO. chap. iv. THE GOVERXOB OF AMBATO. 91 caravan, escorted by the guards, seemed to be conveying somemalefactor to prison ; but the oddity of the sight excited noattention, and the natives passed by stolid, or apathetic, as usual.On arrival at the town,1 we went straight to the house of HisExcellency Sen or Juan Guerrero Duprat, Minister for ForeignAffairs, who had agreed to let a suite of his principal apart-ments for four shillings a day ! and on the morrow sent for thedoctor who had been recommended, Dr. Abel Barona, a gentle-man who left a pleasant recollection through skilful attentioncombined with moderation in charges.2 In a few days he setme up ; and promised Louis that in a week he would be ableto get about,—a good-natured fiction that did not deceive anyof us. Though the swelling was soon reduced, the flesh partedin large gashes, and until these were healed he could not makeserious attempts at walking. At the earliest opportunity, I paid a vi

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