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 . o, we commenced adescent that for tortuous turns and narrow escapesbeat anything we had yet seen. Just as darknesscame on, we encountered a large tree that had sofallen across our path as completely to block allprogress. It seemed as though we must return tothe hut. Half an hours work enabled us to pass thisobstacle only to reach a part of the hillside wherean avalanche had recently occurred. Here even themules and horses trembled with fright as
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 . o, we commenced adescent that for tortuous turns and narrow escapesbeat anything we had yet seen. Just as darknesscame on, we encountered a large tree that had sofallen across our path as completely to block allprogress. It seemed as though we must return tothe hut. Half an hours work enabled us to pass thisobstacle only to reach a part of the hillside wherean avalanche had recently occurred. Here even themules and horses trembled with fright as we ledthem across a mass of loose earth and stones whichthreatened to give way at any moment. Only twoweeks previously, two mules had been lost crossing had started a renewal of the ava-lanche which had taken the poor animals along withit. An hour after dark we came out on a terrace. Theroar of the river was so great that we could scarcelyhear Caceres shouting out that our troubles werenow over and all the rest was level ground. Thisturned out to be only his little joke. We were stilla thousand feet above the river and a path cut in. A CHASM DOWN WHICH PLUNGED A SMALL CATARACT
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