. 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 Titicaca is the highest lake in the world navigatedby steam-vessels. It is nearly t
. 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 Titicaca 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. TEE AGME OF STEAMER NAVIGATION. 83 Copacabana, in Bolivia, which republic claims one half ofTiticaca and its peninsulas and islands. The town itself con-sists of mud huts with straw roofs, but at one side is a finelarge brick church, with ingenious tile ornamentation upon itstowers. This church is a sort of Bolivian Lourdes, a sacredshrine containing an especially Immaculate Lady, to whom,at certain seasons of the year, vast throngs of natives makepilgrimages. We pass through a narrow strait which sepa-rates the northern from the southern parts of the lake: inthe former, land is often out of sight; in the latter, nearer hills are always brown as to color, and barren asto vegetation. On the east, towers the great snowy range ofthe Andes. This extends from north to south as far as wecan see, nearly one hundred miles, and is about thirty milesdistant from the lake. It contains the magnificent peaks ofIllampu or Sorata, Huani Potosi, Illimani, a
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