BOLIVIAN RAILWAYS 
sprinkled with aniline-dyed water. Even bottles of ink 
were emptied on one’s head from the windows. So that, 
although I crossed Bolivia from one end to the other in 
its longest part, I was unable to do any further work. 
I tried to get down to the coast as quickly as possible 
in order to return home. 
La Paz was a beautiful city, extremely neat, with 
bright red-tiled roofs and white buildings. It was situ¬ 
ated in a deep hollow surrounded by a great barrier of 
mountains. So deep and sudden was the hollow that 
within a few metres of its upper edge one would never 
suppose a town to be at hand. Bolivia is a go-ahead 
country in which English people are greatly interested. 
We have in our Minister there, Mr. Gosling, a very able 
representative of British interests. 
Bolivians have shown great enterprise in building 
railways in all directions in order properly to develop 
their enormously wealthy country. Many important lines 
are in construction; others are projected, of which, per¬ 
haps, the most interesting will be the one from Santa 
Cruz to Corumba on the Brazilian boundary. 
The day will come when the port of Arica on the 
Pacific Ocean will be joined to Oruro, on the Anto¬ 
fagasta line, the well-known junction in Bolivia, and 
eventually to Santa Cruz. The present plan is to build 
a line from the already existing railway at Cochabamba 
to Porto Velarde on the Rio Grande (Rio Mamore), 
then to Santa Cruz. The Brazilians on their side will 
eventually connect Sao Paulo with Cuyaba and Corumba. 
It will then be possible to travel by rail tight across 
the South American continent in its richest part. 
There is also a project of connecting Santa Cruz with 
Embarcacion and Campo Santo, in the Argentine Re¬ 
public, and eventually with the Trans-Andine Railway. 
Other smaller lines projected are those between Potosf 
and Sucre, and one from the Chilian boundary at La 
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