. The Spanish-American republics . to aid us, we reached Montevideo on the morning of May6th. The Osiris is a good stout ship, but not a rapid one. Neverthe-less I thoroughly enjoyed the fiveweeks I spent on board, and it-was not without regret that I saidgood-by to Captain Carlsen andall his warm-hearted and amiablepassengers, and went ashore tocontinue my wanderings in theregion of the great plains, theinmensas llanuras of the basinof La Plata. The voyage waslong — the course followed meas-ured more than four thousand seamiles — but it would be difficultto find elsewhere a stretch ofcoast of
. The Spanish-American republics . to aid us, we reached Montevideo on the morning of May6th. The Osiris is a good stout ship, but not a rapid one. Neverthe-less I thoroughly enjoyed the fiveweeks I spent on board, and it-was not without regret that I saidgood-by to Captain Carlsen andall his warm-hearted and amiablepassengers, and went ashore tocontinue my wanderings in theregion of the great plains, theinmensas llanuras of the basinof La Plata. The voyage waslong — the course followed meas-ured more than four thousand seamiles — but it would be difficultto find elsewhere a stretch ofcoast offering such variety ofphysical and ethnographical feat-ures. I had started from thetropical harbor of Callao, fromthe latitude of the coffee and co-coa plant, and skirted the strangerainless regions of northern Chili,with their unparalleled wealthof salts and minerals that makethese barren deserts and aridmountain wastes a veritable chemical laboratory. From Calderasouthward to Valparaiso I had seen the mixed zone abounding in. PATAGONIAN INDIAN WOMAN. SMYTHS CHANNEL AND THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN. •59 minerals, but at the same time fertile and adapted for followed the purely agricultural zone of Chili, with its mild anddelightful climate; the coal fields of the littoral of the provinces ofArauco and Concepcidn; the rainy valleys of Valdivia, Llanquihue,and Chiloe, with their rich soil and luxuriant woods; and finally thezone of woods and fisheries, which begins at latitude 43° 30, and ex-tends to latitude 57° south. Here the great central valley, which plays
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