CONTENTS, 



KEPORT OF A JOUENEY ACKOSS THE ANDES AND PAMPAS OF THE ARGEN- 

 TINE PROVINCES. 



BY LIEUTENANT ARCHIBALD MACEAE. 



CHAPTER I. 



FROM SANTIAGO TO MENDOZA, BY THE USPALLATA PASS. 



Occupation pending my departure, 1 ; Difficulty in making arrangements for animals, 2; Departure, 3 ; Santa Rosa, 3; Chacra 

 de Montumas, 4 ; Preparation of food for tlie mountains, 4 ; Santa Rosa, 4 ; Estero de las Cruces, 5; Laderas, 5 ; Casuciias, 5 ; 

 Glacier, 5; Ojos de Agua, 6; Alto de la Laguna, 6; Mountain late, 6; Cumbre, 6; Puna, 7; Contrabandietas, 7 ; Contrast 

 between the two sides of the mountain, 8 ; Casucha de los Puciuios, 8 : Difference between the streams on the two sides of the 

 pass, 8; Pate of the contrabandistas, 8 ; Hospitality of the arrieros, 9 ; luca's bridge, 9 ; Cerro de losPenitentes, 10; Tupungato, 

 10; Ladera de las Polvaderas, 10; Ladera de las Cortaderas, 10; False sunset, 12; Uspallata, 12; Instance of the value of 

 Madrinas, 12; Villavicensio, 13; The plain, 13; Mocking birds, 13; Arrive at Mendoza, 13; Streams passed in the mountains, 

 14 ; Animals and birds, 14. 



CHAPTER II. 



MENDOZA. 



Plan of the town, 15; Alameda, 15; Sanjon, 15; Bridges, churches, and convents, 15; Style of building, 15: Cheapness of 

 living, IG; Government, 16; Health, 16; Goitre, 16; Agricultural resources, 16: Number of cattle sent to Chile, 17; Crimes, 

 17; Democracy of the billiard-room, 17; Market, 18; Modes of crossing the country, 18; Galeras, 18; Two-wheel carts, 18; 

 Ox-carts, 18; Mule trains, 19; Post-horses, 20. 



CHAPTER III. 



FROM MENDOZA TO SAN LUIS DE LA PUNTA. 



Leave Mendoza, 21 ; Our party, 21 ; Chaci'a of the Aldaos, 21 ; Hospitality of the Seiiora, 22 ; Water of the Tuuuyan, 22; 

 El Eetarao, 22; San Isidro, 22; Lombardy poplars, 22; Santa Rosa, 22; A fall, 22; River Tunuyan, 23; Acorocorto, 23; 

 Mishaps, 23; Poetry of the peons, 21 ; Desaguadero, 24 ; Las Tortugas, 24 ; Locusts, 24; Repi'esa, 24; View of the Cordillera, 

 25 ; The Bebedero, 25 ; El Balde, 25 ; The represa, 25 ; Arrive at San Luis, 25 ; An enormous nose, 26 ; Separate from my com- 

 panions, 26; Portrait of Don Manuel, 26 ; San Luis, 26; Population, 26 ; General appearance, 26 ; Soldiers' costume, 26; Health, 

 27 ; Hotel, 27 ; Mistake of the cook, 27 ; Cultivation, 27 ; Cochineal, 28 ; Gold mines, 28. 



CHAPTER IV. 



FROM SAN LUIS TO l^OSARIO. 



Leave San Luis, 29 ; Nature of the country, 29 ; Our party, 29 ; Rio Quinto, 29 ; San Jose del Morro, 30 ; Fortifioatioi. s, 31) ; 

 Church without a priest, 30 ; Population, 30 ; A New Yorker, 30 ; Wild horses, 30 ; Biscachas, 30 ; Indolence of the arriero 

 strikingly illustrated, 31 ; Achiras, 31 ; Villa de la Concepcion, 32: Appearance, 32; Population, 38; Don Martin Quenon, 32; 



