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fruits, but producing plentiful crops of wheat, corn, apples, grapes, peaches and 
pears. Cochabamba flour supplies the entire Republic. It is not so white as the 
celebrated Chile flour, but we pronounced it the richest flavored we had ever 
eaten in any country. In Cochabamba we spent ten days making collections and 
gathering information upon the character and productions of the country. Never 
will be forgotten the delightful climate, the warm hearted generous friends, and 
the pleasant days we spent in this charming city. 
Mules again for the port of Chimoré, on the Chimoré River. The hire of 
each mule for a journey of fifty leagues was equal to $9.60. We left Cochabam- 
ba April 12th, and passing through magnificent fields of ripening wheat, ascended 
the third and last cordillera. Amidcloud and storm and sleet we passed over 
the summit. Nothing could exceed the exquisite pleasure and absorbing interest 
of this descent—first shrubs, then trees, new and strange and of great variety, 
each mile becoming larger.. With the Aneroid barometer in hand, we noted each 
elevatio 1 as we passed down to the potatoe, barley, corn, yucca, fern palm, plan- 
tain, orange, coffee, coca, rice, sugar cane and cacao, (chocolate). The professor 
had been eager to press forward, so that in spite of the advice of friends, we fuund 
ourselves in the great forests of he lower mountains at least three weeks too early 
in the season. We encountered floods of rain and torrents of water. Our pack 
mules fell in the mud or rolled over down the slippery rocks. Professor Orton, 
mule and all, fell into the deep torrent of ariver. nats surrounded us in clouds. 
We were bitten by them until it was not possible to close the swelled hands. We 
wore masks to protect the face. 
At Pachimoco, a place of a half dozen Indian cabins, on the river Chapare, 
we first met the Indian of the forests; painted, wearing feathers of the macaw and 
armed with bow and arrows of extraordinary size. ‘Their only covering a shirt 
prepared from the inner bark of a tree. The material is abundant, easily washed. 
and wears well. The Indians live upon plantains and yucca, fish and game of the 
forest. We were now in the great Madeira platte—the mountains were behind 
us. Elevation above the ocean by boiling point of water, 875 feet. 
It was necessary to travel ten leagues along the base of the mountains to 
reach the river Chimoré where we would find canoes. In the middle-of the af- 
ternoon we arrived at the Coni River, but finding it too deep to ford on account 
of rains of previous night, we camped in the dry bed of the river a mile from shore 
on a high sand bank near which grew a clump of willows and wild cane. Some 
Yuracare Indians whom the Cacique had sent with us from Pachimoco, with sur- 
prising skill constructed for us a perfect shelter out of the wild cane. ‘They then 
swam the river, promising to return early next morning with canoes to ferry us 
over. The night closed in dark and stormy. ‘There were with us the two mule- 
eteers from Cochabamba. ‘They built bonfires to protect ourselves and mules 
from tigers. By ten o’clock the rain poured in torrents, the thunder was deafen- 
ing. ‘The lightning was continuous and of intense brilliancy. The river began 
to rise. Inan hourit had risen fifteen feet; it was within a few inches of our 
