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CHAPTER IX. 



Leave Santiago — Bad road — Arrive at Santa Rosa — Drunken 

 Courier — Lay in Provisions for the Cordillera — Leave Santa 

 Rosa — Enter the Andes — Remarks on Travellers — First 

 Night in the Andes — Description of El Alto del Sold ado — 

 La Guardia de los Hornillos — Second Night in the Andes — 

 Ascent of the Cuesta de Concual — Ascent of the Cumbre — 

 View from the summit of the Cumbre — Descent of the 

 Cumbre — Method of Crossing rapid Rivers — Lose two 

 Mules in a River — Description of the Inca's Bridge — De- 

 scription of the Cordillera Lions — Third Night in the Andes. 



December, 1th, Having engaged the courier 

 and a trusty Peon^ I left Santiago very early in 

 the mornings accompanied out of the town by 

 my friends Messrs. Cameron and Smithy who 

 shortly after^ wishing me a prosperous journey, 

 left me solitary and alone, once more to cross 



