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him, and shuts him up in one of those miserable 

 casuchas for seven or eight days. And now, in 

 taking leave of the traveller who may visit 

 these dreary regions, he must not be alarmed at 

 hearing of the deaths of so many of the poor 

 miserable peons, for they are the most improvi- 

 dent people in the world, and think of nothing 

 till the moment it is wanted, two of ours were 

 without hats, and one of them was absolutely 

 without a jacket. When I first started, I fully 

 expected on rising some morning to have found 

 one or two of them frozen to death, and it is only 

 astonishing how they can stand the severity of 

 such changes of temperature in the manner they 

 do. As I had never seen a register of the ther- 

 mometer by any travellers who had crossed the 

 Andes, and thinking it might prove very interest- 

 ing, I took the greatest pains to ascertain the 

 temperature as correctly as possible, which I 

 here give in a table, in order to have it in one 

 view. 



