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saloon, where they played assiduously from nine in the morn- 

 ing till midnight without interruption. One wealthy Peru- 

 ano, well known along this coast, in the course of a single 

 voyage is said to have lost 80,000 dollars (£16,800) ! ! 



On 20th May we anchored in Arica, an elegant sea-port of 

 some 7000 inhabitants, surrounded by beautiful luxuriant 

 gardens, and which, though belonging to Peru, may be con- 

 sidered as the chief outlet for the produce of Northern Bolivia, 

 since Tacna, the most important manufacturing town of that 

 State, with a population of 12,000, is only nine English miles 

 distant, lying at the foot of the Cordillera, while La Paz, the 

 capital of the Republic, with a population of 75,000, is 288 

 miles distant, and is easiest reached from Arica. The po- 

 litical division of Bolivia is a crying injustice to that lovely 

 country and its industrious population. Tlie harbour of 

 Arica belongs by natm^al position to Bolivia and not to Peru ; 

 commercial interests and general intercourse unite it far more 

 intimately with Northern Bolivia than with Peru. The chief 

 exports of Arica are silver, copper, aljoaca wool, cinchona 

 bark, chinchilla furs, cotton, and tin. There are also two 

 steam flour-mills within the little town in full operation ; the 

 grain comes from the interior, and is shipped as flour to the 

 various harbours along the coast. A railroad from Arica to 

 Tacna greatly facilitates traffic and commerce, but further in 

 the interior all intercourse is carried on by means of narrow 

 mule-paths,* 



* From Arica there are bridle-paths to Potosi, Oruru, Cochabamba, La Paz, 



