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 . boiled sweetpotatoes, we girded ourselves for the ascent. Theriver at this point is about 5000 feet above sea-level. We had had little practice in mountainclimbing, except on mule-back, for many months,and it seemed like a pretty serious undertaking toattempt to climb six thousand feet more to an ele-vation of 11,000 feet. This will sound tame enoughto the experienced mountain climber although itwas anything but easy for us. Our patient, long-suf
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 . boiled sweetpotatoes, we girded ourselves for the ascent. Theriver at this point is about 5000 feet above sea-level. We had had little practice in mountainclimbing, except on mule-back, for many months,and it seemed like a pretty serious undertaking toattempt to climb six thousand feet more to an ele-vation of 11,000 feet. This will sound tame enoughto the experienced mountain climber although itwas anything but easy for us. Our patient, long-suffering Quichua bearers, coming of a race that, athigh altitudes, is in the habit of marching distanceswhich appear incredibly long to those students ofmilitary history that have confined their attentionto the movements of European troops, bore theirburdens most cheerfully. At the same time theygave frequent evidence of great fatigue which wasnot at all to be wondered at under the circumstances. Of one incident of the ascent Mr. Hay wrote :Most of the party started long before the two*Yanquis, but in half an hour we caught up w^ith SUNRISE p :.
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