436 DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO J. CA3IPANA. appendix. 



"We went on again at 9.5 a.m. and found the snow get steeper and 

 steeper. We were all tied together with a good strong rope, in case any one 

 should slip, and except for this and for the things with which we had been 

 provided I should not have been able to get along at all. Sometimes it was 

 very cold, and there was much wind, but when we were in the sun it was 

 very hot. Whether in the sun or in the shade the snow was very soft, and 

 we sank in deeply, often up to the knees. This was very fatiguing, and it 

 was owing to this that we took so much longer time in ascending the upper 

 than the lower i3art of the mountain. 



"To break the ascent we zigzagged about, and at one time came round to 

 the side fronting Guaranda, and then came back to above the place where the 

 tent was pitched. At last we got on to the top, and could see the two sum- 

 mits. The snow was very soft indeed here, and we went alon^ very slowly, 

 and had often to stop to get breath. The highest of the two summits was on 

 our left hand, that is, upon the north side of the mountain, and we went to 

 it, without going upon the lower one. As we approached the very highest 

 point we saw that there was something strange upon it, and when we got up 

 we found the pole of the flag which Mr. Whymper had put up on January 4, 

 1880. It stood up about 1^ varas above the snow, and very little of the flag 

 remained, as it had been torn to pieces by the wind. I took a small piece of 

 the flag to show to ray friends below, and was filled with joy at being the 

 first Ecuadorian to reach the summit of the great Chimborazo ! 



"We arrived on the very highest point of the summit at 1.20 p.m., and 

 about the same time ashes from Cotopaxi began to fall. They filled our 

 eyes, noses, mouths, and ears, and made the snow quite black. Mr. 

 Whymper, however, prepared his instruments, and was at work during the 

 whole time we were on the summit. He did not once sit down to rest from 

 the time we left the tent in the morning until the time that we returned to 

 it in the evening. He took the height of the mountain with his barometers, 

 and told us that the observations he now made agreed very well with those 

 which he made upon the first ascent of Chimborazo on January 4, 1880. 



"At 2.30 P.M. we left the summit, and came down as fast as we could, 

 only stopping a little from time to time to allow Mr. Whymper to collect 

 rocks at various places. We arrived again at the tent at 5.10 p.m., and found 

 it covered with the ashes from Cotopaxi, which were still falling, and filled 

 the whole valleys with a thick cloud. On the 4th July we continued the 

 tour of the mountain and arrived at night close to Tortorillas, and on the 

 6th we returned to Riobamba, having had a most successful journey, without 

 accidents of any sort whatever — not only having made the tour and the 

 second ascent of Chimborazo, but having also made en route, on the 29th of 

 June, the ascent of Carihuairazo. 



"Guayaquil, July 19, 1880. 



(Signed) "Franco. Jr. Campana." 



Declared and subscribed at 



Guayaquil this twentieth day 



of July 1880, Before me 



Geo. Chambers, 



H.B.M.'s Consul, Guayaquil. 



