Around and about South America . sengers were obliged, therefore,to sleep on the benches of the saloon. From Puno to Chili-laya, in Bolivia, the port of disembarkation for La Paz, thedistance is one hundred and twenty miles, and the cabin fareis sixteen dollars. I found the steamer quite full of people,there being a church fair, to which most of them werebound, at Copacabana, a town on a peninsula, in the southernpart of the lake. Our freight was chiefly lumber, though Isaw two piano-boxes labeled La Paz. Lake Titicaea is the highest lake in the world navigatedby steam-vessels. It is nearly th
Around and about South America . sengers were obliged, therefore,to sleep on the benches of the saloon. From Puno to Chili-laya, in Bolivia, the port of disembarkation for La Paz, thedistance is one hundred and twenty miles, and the cabin fareis sixteen dollars. I found the steamer quite full of people,there being a church fair, to which most of them werebound, at Copacabana, a town on a peninsula, in the southernpart of the lake. Our freight was chiefly lumber, though Isaw two piano-boxes labeled La Paz. Lake Titicaea is the highest lake in the world navigatedby steam-vessels. It is nearly thirteen thousand feet abovethe level of the sea, is seven hundred feet deep, and coversan area of four thousand square miles, a little more than halfthe size of Lake Ontario. The water is a very dark green incolor. We left the anchorage in a blinding lake was remarkably smooth during our passage, but Iam told it is often rough, though never preventing the regu-lar trips of the steamers. The only stop we made was at. V
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