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CONTENTS. 



Cordillera — Leave Santa Rosa — Enter the Andes 

 — Remarks on Travellers — First Night in the 

 Andes— Description of El Alto del Soldado — La 

 Guardia de los Hornillos — Second Night in the 

 Andes — Ascent of the Cuesta de Concual — As- 

 cent of the Cumbre — View from the summit of 

 Cumbre — Descent of the Cumbre — Method of 

 Crossing rapid Rivers — Lose two Mules in a River 

 — Description of the Inca's Bridge — Description 

 of the Cordillera Lions — Third Night in the 

 Andes . . . . .214 



CHAPTER X. 



Description of a Portable Canteen for the Cordillera, 

 or Pampas — Rio de las Vacas— Its Dangers — 

 Mules lost in crossing — A Man nearly lost — 

 Fourth Night in the Andes — Arrive at Uspallata 

 — View of the Cordillera — Fifth Night in the 

 Andes — ^Villavicencia — Arrive at Mendoza — Bull 

 Fight at Mendoza — Prepare for the Pampas — 

 Engage the Courier — Leave Mendoza — Arrive at 

 San Luis — Reports of Robbers — Head of a Rob- 

 ber stuck upon a Pole — Fall from a Wild Horse — 

 Swarms of Locusts — Arrive at Frayle Muerto — 

 Desmochado, millions of Mosquitos — Lose my 

 Note Book— A Peon brings it back — Galloped 



