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north of Capital • This trip v^as nade thrcugli the eo-urtesy of the JJirector 
of the newly constructed railroad from La raz to Pongo. ^ The Piraotor 
furnished passes for myself ana Mr. Ctto Buchtien, who acco.c.ipanied me as guide 
ana interpreter, ana. furnished .uules for a weefe's journey through lorth and 
South lungas, a £?reat coca-grov;dn£i: region. Mr. Buchtien is a Geiman 
botanist ■'long resident in j^olivia. On January 3 I arrived at Oochabanba where 
I spent several days in a fertile seniitropical agricultural valley. 
The last excursion in Bolivians to th^:; sout.iem border over the 
transcontinental railroad to Buenos Aires.. This has not bean completed 
but is undpr construction from Atoclia to ¥illa2on# Through the kindness 
of Mr. ^rueheart, imnager of the Ulen CJontracting Corporation that is 
constructing the road 1 ¥/as furnished with passes on construction trains 
and with a man and iiiules for overlana travel between railheads. The round 
trip took about ten days. Coming back to Uyuni I went to Antofagasta, Chile, 
-yihere I embarked on a Grace Line ..teamer for I^nama January 25th. I arrived 
in lew York February l?th. 
Topography and Glimate. 
The three countries lie mostly in tiie Andes, or Cordillera as the 
great mountain system is called there, ^i-long the fecific coast is a 
plain varying in width from a few miles to as much as 100 miles. Bast 
of this is the mountain system consisting for the ruost part of two main 
chains with high valleys or plateaus between. On the east of the mountain 
system the slopes ana foothills merge gradually • int c the ..:mia2;on ?alley 
in t;..e north and into the Paraguay Yalley in the south. 
