. Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil . Eich as Bolivia undoubtedly is in minerals, theseconstitute but a small part of her natural is possessed of a large area of remarkably fertileland well watered by noble rivers and a climate thathas almost every possible variation between the snow-capped peaks of the Andes and the tropical heat of herlowlands. Within her own borders she produces nearlyall the cereals, vegetables, fruits, and meats one usuallyexpects to find anywhere in the temperate or torridzone. The animals required by
. Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil . Eich as Bolivia undoubtedly is in minerals, theseconstitute but a small part of her natural is possessed of a large area of remarkably fertileland well watered by noble rivers and a climate thathas almost every possible variation between the snow-capped peaks of the Andes and the tropical heat of herlowlands. Within her own borders she produces nearlyall the cereals, vegetables, fruits, and meats one usuallyexpects to find anywhere in the temperate or torridzone. The animals required by present methods oftransportation or necessary to furnish subsistence andwool for clothing are raised almost without care orexpense. Her forests furnish game and her riversteem with fish. Bolivian tobacco is incomparably superior to anyother. India-rubber, cotton, sugar-cane, cinchona bark,cacao, vanilla beans, the coca plant, gums, dye-woods,various medicinal plants, and many kinds of orna-mental wood, highly prized by the cabinet-maker, are South American Republics/ by Thomas C. AN ILL-FATED EXPEDITION 21 familiar products of her soil. The commerce ofBolivia is, however, insignificant in comparison withwhat it might be with better facilities for reaching theseaboard. At the time of which we write she had butone seaport which was comparatively useless, becausesituated in a waterless desert, and that she has sincesurrendered to Chile. Almost her entire commercehad been for many years conducted through this portof Cobija in the Desert of Atacama and the port ofArica in Peru. These seaports could be reached frominterior points in Bolivia only after a vexatious tripover the Andes at an elevation of fifteen thousand feet,by paths and along precipices where even the sure-footed mule at times found it difficult to go, wherethe penetrating cold and the soroche made life almostunendurable to those accustomed to lower altitudesand a warmer climate. The cargo that could be con-ve
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