. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . PICHINCHA, FROM MACHACHI. CHAPTER XI. UPON AN ASCENT OF PICHINCHA. On my return to Quito I found Jean-Antoine was , there did not seem to be much the matter with said that his complaint was an internal one, and that his bloodhad been turned sour by the crevasse episode. This dangerousmalady, however, yielded to the benign influence of the universalremedy (see p. 50), and in a short time he declared himself fit foractive service. There was something else, too, calculated to sour the stenc
. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . PICHINCHA, FROM MACHACHI. CHAPTER XI. UPON AN ASCENT OF PICHINCHA. On my return to Quito I found Jean-Antoine was , there did not seem to be much the matter with said that his complaint was an internal one, and that his bloodhad been turned sour by the crevasse episode. This dangerousmalady, however, yielded to the benign influence of the universalremedy (see p. 50), and in a short time he declared himself fit foractive service. There was something else, too, calculated to sour the stench of the putrid ox-cheek pervaded everything, and eachday the Carrels took a load of foul tins down to the Machangara(a rivulet that runs through Quito) to try to rid them of theabominable odour by scouring them bright with sand ; a verymean and menial occupation — almost as bad as carrying home 208 TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. XL washing for a Chinaman, which on the Pacific Coast is consideredthe lowest depth of degradation that can befall a human bei
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