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 . ry pros-perous^condition at the time of my visit. This mayhave been due to a patriotic celebration that hadtaken place a fortnight before. At that time a littlepoetical drama, reminiscent of the first conflict forindependence in 1810, was played in the drama, written by a local poet, was dedicated toSeiior Aramayo, the Maecenas of Tupiza, a memberof the wealthiest family of southern Bolivia, and theowner of several rich silver mine
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 . ry pros-perous^condition at the time of my visit. This mayhave been due to a patriotic celebration that hadtaken place a fortnight before. At that time a littlepoetical drama, reminiscent of the first conflict forindependence in 1810, was played in the drama, written by a local poet, was dedicated toSeiior Aramayo, the Maecenas of Tupiza, a memberof the wealthiest family of southern Bolivia, and theowner of several rich silver mines and a large im-porting warehouse. The shops of Tupiza were not brilliantly lightedalthough they contained quite an assortment of arti-cles of European origin. The trade which they ap-peal to is that of the mule-drivers, the arrieros, whocongregate here while their cargoes are being in-spected by the revenue officers. The Indians of thevicinity, whose money comes chiefly from the pro-duct of their irrigation ditches, have little to spend.• Tupiza boasts two newspapers; one of them a bi-weekly, now in its third year, and the other a literary. ACROSS THE BOLIVIAN FRONTIER 91 weekly that had recently been started by the authorof the poetical drama just alluded to. The weeklyrefers to the celebration in most flattering social life in Tupiza had increased sofar that it is high time to commence to notice itsfaults and deficiencies. These could easily be re-moved with proper enthusiasm and good will. Tu-piza is a centre of social culture, but unfortunatelyit is not yet able to appreciate such worthy theatri-cal spectacles as have recently taken place! CHAPTER VIII TUPIZA TO COTAGAITA E found that the BoHvian government hadrecently subsidized a weekly stage Hne fromTupiza to Uyuni on the Antofagasta railway and an-other from Tupiza to Potosi, our next objectivepoint. The fare to Potosi is twenty-two dollars,and the journey takes only four days. But we hadenough of
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