Through five republics on horseback : being an account of many wanderings in South America . tothem ere they take the long, dark trail after theirfathers, and have hurled the last malediction attheir cursed white oppressors! We suffer yet a little space Until we pass away,The relics of an ancient race Tliat neer has had its day. 87 Bolivia. For four hundred years Bolivia has thus beenheld in chains by hard taskmasters. Since itsIncan rulers were massacred, its civilization hasbeen of the lowest. Buildings, irrigation dams,etc., were suffered to fall into disrepair, and thecountry went back to
Through five republics on horseback : being an account of many wanderings in South America . tothem ere they take the long, dark trail after theirfathers, and have hurled the last malediction attheir cursed white oppressors! We suffer yet a little space Until we pass away,The relics of an ancient race Tliat neer has had its day. 87 Bolivia. For four hundred years Bolivia has thus beenheld in chains by hard taskmasters. Since itsIncan rulers were massacred, its civilization hasbeen of the lowest. Buildings, irrigation dams,etc., were suffered to fall into disrepair, and thecountry went back to pre-Incan days. World wrongly called tlie new, This clime was oldWhen first the Spaniards came In search of rose, ruled, dwindled to decay, Empires were formed,Then darkly passed away. Bolivia, with its vast natural riches, mustcome to the forefront, and already strides arebeing taken forward. She can export over fivemillion dollars worth of rubber in one year, andis now spending more than fifty million dollarson railways. So Bolivia is a country of the pastand the future. 88. CHAPTER V. JOURNEY TO THE UNEXPLORED LAKE. Since the days when Pizarros adventurersdiscovered the hitherto undreamed-of splendorof the Inca Dynasty, Bolivia has been a land ofsurprises and romantic discovery. Strange tosay, even yet much of the eastern portion ofthis great republic remains practically unex-plored. The following account of exploration inthose regions, left for men of the twentieth cen-tury, may not, I am persuaded, be without in-terest to the general reader. Bolivia has formany years been seriously handicapped throughhaving no adequate water outlet to the sea, andthe immense resources of wealth she undoubtedlypossesses have, for this reason, been suffered togo, in a measure, unworked Now, however, inthe onward progress of nations, Bolivia hasstepped forward. In the year 1900, the Govern-ment of that country despatched an expeditionto locate and explore Lake Gaiba, a large sheet
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