APPENDIX. 20U 
Oattlo bi’ooiling’, witli the exception of the vciy modest Ijugiiinin^ on tiie lintural 
canipos of Crato, has been quite iiiikn.wn on the l\lndoirii, and iirobably will eoiitinue 
so for some time to come. There are iiumousfi districts witliont an ox, or a raw. or a 
horse, or a mule, or a shoe]., or a goat. Even a pig is a rare sight. Dogs ami 
fowls only aro to bo seen near the cottages, usually aasomated with a crowd ol the 
ensUy-tnmed inhabitants of the woods— paiTots, toucans, luonkoys, several rodents, 
and ‘even bristly peccaries. And yet the want of animal food is felt acutely by the 
dense iiopulatiou of the Amazon Valley, and will bo daily aggravated by the 
increasing immigration of Eiu'opeans. who do not relish the eternal fish-uud-farina 
On the campos of the Mamore, TJjiper Beni, Ttonama and Maehupo, on the grassy 
nlains occupied by the fifteen Missions, cattlo thrive so plentifuUy that, with proper 
maimgerneut, thev would easily supply the whole country, ^ soon as the Madeira 
raihoad shall have opened a market for them in the Amazon Valley; and the recently- 
started National Bolman Navigation Company, as well as the raihoad, may reckon on 
at least tills considerable teade. , - +1 
Besides hides, tallow, cMod meat, Uve stock, sugar, brandy and cacao Die 
invaluable Peruvian bark also will then take its way down the Madema to lara, 
and the economical monstrosity of sending it to Europe over the Cordillera and 
round Cape Horn will ceaso. And tho same observation applies to the produce of the 
rich mines of Bolivia; of which, by the way, only those of Potosi (the richest silver 
mines in tho world) and the newly-discovered ones of Oaracolesf are workefi and doing 
fairly, while the excellent copper mines of Coro-eoro are totaUy neglected. These 
crooL^d ways, of which the example of the Peruvian hark is_ sufficient ewl^nce 
iniurionslv affect not only the exports of the country, but also tlie import of European 
aid North Americau goods ; which aro as indispensable to Bolivia as to the rest of 
^'^'^lllt^s^Ty^way of illustration) follow them from some European port to their place 
of itstffiation. La Paz, Cochabamba, «uci-o, or Santa Crim do la Sierra. laving 
arrived, after a sea voyage of eighty or ninety days, at the Pe™’iau port oi Anc.a, 
and landed as usual with Lrage (as it cannot he othermse with &e deto 
ments there) they have fii’st to pass the custom-house of the tsister-Eopuhlic, 
in consideration of the sum of 500,000 doUars annually paid to Bohvia. has (hy the 
ti-eatv of 186.5) acquired the right of levying heavy taxes on all c asses ot goods (about 
they lu-e packed up in parcels that must not weigh moi;e than liO or 140 lbs ami 
theLe b} beasts o^f burden over the steepest and 
most tro4,losome and tecUous way, to La Paz. Arrived there pt 
perhaps, saturated, the cost of the goods has amounted to 
lu ; Ld to reach Cochabamba, or Sucre, or Santa Cruz de | 
as much more All these towns, however, are situated near affluents oi the Amazon, 
and will be accessible from its mouth in an easier ^ 
half the expense, as soon as the short railway along tho rapids of the Madeua 
'^^'’The following is a tabular statement of tho trade to and from Bolivia 
1 iiipmts. 
From England 
,, Franco 
,, Germany • 
ITnitod States 
£ 
528.000 
261.000 
224,000 
72,000 
Imports 
From Argentine EepuhHc 64,000 
^ . cw\ /\/Wk 
Peril . 
Brazil 
. 80,000 
56,000 
”£1,288,000 
wmked in 10,200 places for the aUver ore. 
