. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. thoroughly scraped. It is nowshipped from the Lobos Islands, at the rate of 600 tons perday. The principal deposits yet untouched are those ofYiejas Island, Lobillo Island, Huanillo Island, HuauilloPoint, White Point, Pabollon de Pica, Chiapana Bay, andon the main-land near Iquique. The guano now in themarket is inferior to that of Chincha, containing five percent, less of ammonia. Peru owns but four millions oftons (the rest being mortgaged to Dreyfus & Co.), worth$35 a ton where it lies, or £13 a ton in Liverpool. In1871
. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. thoroughly scraped. It is nowshipped from the Lobos Islands, at the rate of 600 tons perday. The principal deposits yet untouched are those ofYiejas Island, Lobillo Island, Huanillo Island, HuauilloPoint, White Point, Pabollon de Pica, Chiapana Bay, andon the main-land near Iquique. The guano now in themarket is inferior to that of Chincha, containing five percent, less of ammonia. Peru owns but four millions oftons (the rest being mortgaged to Dreyfus & Co.), worth$35 a ton where it lies, or £13 a ton in Liverpool. In1871, nearly 400,000 tons vpere sold (almost one third toGreat Britain), netting £2,785,641. The mining is done Guano and Salitek. 435 by coolies, who are imported at the rate of 12,000 a year,ostensibly as colonists, bnt really condemned to the worstform of slavery. Many of the poor fellows, rather thandig the foul guano, throw themselves from the cliffs intothe sea. A Celestial sells for $400 ; the time of servitudehas lately been reduced from eight to six Salttee, or Nitrate of Soda—This formidable compet-itor with guano is found in the province of Tarapaca, es-pecially on the Pampa del Tamarugal, where it occupiesfifty square leagues, and is reckoned at 63,000,000 seems to be constantly forming. The average yield is 436 The Andes and the Amazons. over 4,000,000 quintals; but were the senseless restrictionon its exportation (25 cents per quintal) removed, the quan-tity would be tripled. The demand is on the increase, yetthe supply exceeds the demand. It is mainly exportedfrom Iquiqne, where the price is about $2 50 a quintal;in Liverpool, £16 a ton. Mixed with guano, saliter (or caliche, as it is called in the crude state) is the best com-post for cereals. In the deposit at La PeSa Grande, fossilbirds, with a flannngo-like bill, have been discovered ninefeet below the surface. Water is found in these pampas180 feet below the surface. In this same region ther
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