British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . OLD PRINT OF THE LLAMA AND INDLVNS. SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 509 So Ledger left the neigliborhood of Lake Titicaca, onlyto find that the Bolivian officials were on the look-out forhim. In order to escape detection, therefore, Ledger andhis convoy were obliged to forsake the main-roads—them-selves mere sheep-tracks—and to scramble as best theycould across the peaks and valleys of the stupendousBolivian Mountain country.
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . OLD PRINT OF THE LLAMA AND INDLVNS. SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 509 So Ledger left the neigliborhood of Lake Titicaca, onlyto find that the Bolivian officials were on the look-out forhim. In order to escape detection, therefore, Ledger andhis convoy were obliged to forsake the main-roads—them-selves mere sheep-tracks—and to scramble as best theycould across the peaks and valleys of the stupendousBolivian Mountain country. This achievement in itself,involving immense hardships, was a sufficiently notableone. Once arrived in the neighborhood of the North-westerniVrgentine frontier, our intrepid smuggler found himselfon the threshold of the crisis of his enterprise. Aheadof him was the Bolivian frontier guard, warned, and onthe look-out for his approach. How on earth was Ledgerto conceal the many scores of his tall llamas! A few rab-bits he might have placed in a game pocket: but this wasnot to be done with an animal too lowly for a camel, toolofty for a sheep, and too shaggy for a deer. Moreoveran
Size: 1826px × 1368px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectsouthamericahistory
