. Pacific shores from Panama . the high altitude is rather against all out-door sports. As soon as you leave the streets of the city, in anydirection, you are at once confronted with the savageaspect of the country that surrounds it. Forming the [223] PACIFIC SHORES FROM PANAMA continuation of each steep thoroughfare, as it were,rise the cHffs and pinnacles, coloured by mineral ores, of this forbidding valley. Having viewed it fromabove at the Alto, it is wellto see it from below bywalking down to Obrajes,where the Chuquiapu thun-ders along in its mad runto the sea, mining its waydeeper and ev
. Pacific shores from Panama . the high altitude is rather against all out-door sports. As soon as you leave the streets of the city, in anydirection, you are at once confronted with the savageaspect of the country that surrounds it. Forming the [223] PACIFIC SHORES FROM PANAMA continuation of each steep thoroughfare, as it were,rise the cHffs and pinnacles, coloured by mineral ores, of this forbidding valley. Having viewed it fromabove at the Alto, it is wellto see it from below bywalking down to Obrajes,where the Chuquiapu thun-ders along in its mad runto the sea, mining its waydeeper and ever deeper intoits stony bed. There is awell-founded theory, I be-lieve, that this valley of LaPaz was at one time the bedof the great river that drainedTiticaca, whose only outletnowadays is the Desagua-dero, that leaves the lake near Guaqui, to sink finallyinto Oruros salty certainly immense vol-umes of water must have poured down these gullies,and still do for that matter, after the frequent and angry rains. [224]. An Aymara Musician
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