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veiling Companions — Ball at Mendoza — Mendo- 

 za Ladies — Alameda or Public Walk — Prepara- 

 tions for entering the Andes . . 54 



CHAPTER V. 



Leave Mendoza — Enter the Andes — Arrive at Vil- 

 lavicencia — Twelve Peons blocked up in a Snow- 

 storm — Dead Mules — Singular appearance of 

 them — Sufferings of the Ancient Indians — First 

 sight of the Cordillera — Grand and awful appear- 

 ance — Reflection — Arrive at Uspallata — Peon 

 found blind in the Cordillera — First pass swept 

 away — Description of its Dangers — Guanaco 

 caught — Magnificent natural Bed-Chamber in 

 the Cordillera — Electricity found in our Clothes — 

 Difficulties commence — Fourth Pass covered with 

 Snow — Its Dangers — Lose a Mule down the 

 Mountain — Fifth Pass covered with Snow — Ex- 

 treme Danger — Lose two more Mules — Second 

 night in the Cordillera, with wild Bed-Chamber 

 and Gale of Wind — Leave the Mules, and pro- 

 ceed on foot — A Peon rolls down a Mountain of 

 Snow, and breaks his foot — Distress and labour 

 of the Peons — Dead Peon in the Snow — Reflec- 

 tion . . . .84 



