SOUTH AMERICA 



AND 



THE PACIFIC. 



CHAPTER I. 



A thunder-storm — Passage of a torrent — Halt for the 

 night — Unpleasant bedfellows — The Andes contrasted 

 with the Swiss iVlps — Evergreen shrubs — Flight of 

 locusts — ** Poor and content" — An addition to the 

 party — Another storm — A rencounter and a difficulty 

 — Ascent of the Cordilleras — Halt for the night 

 — A fall over the precipice — First encounter with the 

 condors — Their prodigious power — An unpleasant 

 detention — Effects of reaching the highest point of the 

 mountain. 



On the following evenings Feb. 17^ we left 

 our friends^ the Villa Nuevas, and crossed the 



VOL. II. B 



