Along a flooded portion of the Madiera Mamore Railway when trains were not running and the expedition 

 transported its equipment and supplies on hand cars 



drivers passing previously have often 

 left the path in search of better going, 

 thus making false trails unsafe to follow 

 unless with a very experienced guide. 



The short journey up from Cocha- 

 bamba was hot and dry, over trails 

 covered with white dust, but the last 

 divide we crossed in a thick mist and 

 turning due north from the Santa Cruz 

 trail, seemed suddenly to have entered 



another country. Almost perpetual rain 

 was now encountered, and the precipitous 

 nature of the descent, about five thou- 

 sand feet in twenty-four hours, made 

 traveling decidedly uneasy and in parts 

 dangerous, due to the paths being water 

 courses from which all mould had been 

 washed away. Wet slippery rocks and 

 often quantities of loose small boulders, 

 made it necessarv to walk most of the 



Where the trail led over the bed of a dry stream and the mules continually slipped on the loose stones 



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