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tion is sufficient to throw down the carrier^ and 
his fail would be so much the more dangerous, 
as the carguero, too confident in liis skill, 
chooses the most rapid declivities, or crosses a 
torrent on a narrow and slippery trunk of a tree. 
These accidents are however rare, and those 
which happen must be attributed to the impru- 
dence of travellers, who, frightened at a false 
step of the carguero, leap down from their 
chairs. 
The fifth plate represents a very picturesque 
view, seen at the entrance of the mountain of 
Quindiu, near Ibague, at a post called the foot 
of the Cuesta. The truncated- cone of Tolima, 
covered with perpetual snow, and reminding us 
by its form of Cotopaxi and Cayambe, appears 
above the mass of granitic rocks. The small 
river of Combeima, which mingles its waters 
with those of Rio Cuello, winds in a narrow' 
valley, and forces its way across a thicket of 
palm trees. A part of the town of Ibague, the 
great valley of the river Magdalena, and the 
eastern chain of the Andes, are seen in the 
back ground. In the fore ground is a band of 
cargueroes coming up tlie mountain, representing 
the mode of fastening on the shoulders the chair 
made of bamboo wood, which is steadied by a 
headstall similar to that worn by horses and 
oxen. The roll in the hand of the third car 
guero is the roof, or rather movable house. 
