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Travels and Adventures 



the morning of the fourth we arrived at the gold- 

 mines called La Concepcion, the property of Messrs. 

 Lopez and Navarro, where the director, Mr. Thomas 

 Smallfield, treated us with the greatest kindness. 

 Although a miner's life in the wilds of the Andes 



DIGGING FOR GOLD. 



must necessarily be full of privations, everyone seemed 

 happy and contented. We rested here one day, and, 

 after being furnished with a few necessaries by our 

 friends the miners, we again started on the track. 

 Two years had elapsed since the expedition passed 

 that way, and then the road made was a mere trail. 

 With the rank growth of veeetation in these climates 

 this track had become entirely overgrown. Messrs. 



