Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . OUR HOTEL IN SUCRE SUCRE 143 through which we had to pass to reach the backyard. It differed from others only in the large num-ber of guinea-pigs that swarmed everywhere. Theyhelped to make the bill-of-fare more interesting. Sucre owes its importance to its comparativelypleasant climate. The average temperature is 56° , accustomed as they are to one of the worstclimates in the world, say that Sucre has the finestclimate in existence,
Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . OUR HOTEL IN SUCRE SUCRE 143 through which we had to pass to reach the backyard. It differed from others only in the large num-ber of guinea-pigs that swarmed everywhere. Theyhelped to make the bill-of-fare more interesting. Sucre owes its importance to its comparativelypleasant climate. The average temperature is 56° , accustomed as they are to one of the worstclimates in the world, say that Sucre has the finestclimate in existence, which means, being translated,that it is fairly tolerable. Nevertheless, we found itvery agreeable to be down at this lower elevation,and we could scarcely sympathize with Castelnau,who, coming up from the eastern plains in 1845,thought Sucre very triste. He and his associateshad been for many months in the warm regions ofBrazil and found it difficult to resist the cold andthe effects of the altitude. Most of them sufferedseverely from soroche although few people now-a-days think of being troubled at an altitude of any-thing less than twelve
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