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CHAPTER VIII. 

 THE HISTORY CONCLUDED. 



SUCCESSES, AND ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF 

 BOLIVAR ANECDOTES — DREADFUL PAS- 

 SAGE OF THE PARAMO OF CHISBA. 



Interrupting for a time the narrative 

 of events in this quarter, I now proceed 

 briefly to notice what passed at Buenos- 

 Ayres, Monte Video, &c. Rio de la Plata, 

 bounded by the Brazils, Peru, Chili, and 

 Patagonia, consisted of twenty provinces, 

 some of them situated on the Andes, name- 

 ly, Moxos, Chiquitos, Apolobamba, Santa 

 Cruz de la Sierra, La Poz, Cochabamba, 

 Carangas, Misque, Paria,Charcas,Potosi, and 

 Atacarma ; and the others, denominated the 



