348 IN THE WILDS OF SOUTH AMERICA 



is in the neighborhood of ten thousand feet. There are 

 few habitations until the immediate vicinity of the city is 

 reached. 



The approach to Sucre is quite attractive. We could 

 see the assemblage of dazzling white edifices from a dis- 

 tance; and not long after we were galloping over the cobble- 

 stones between rows of neat, clean buildings on our way 

 to the Hotel Espanol. In our journey from Cochabamba 

 we had travelled nearly a thousand miles, and counting 

 the several delays, had spent fifty-six days en route. 



