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قراءة كتاب Across the Andes A Tale of Wandering Days Among the Mountains of Bolivia and the Jungles of the Upper Amazon

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Across the Andes
A Tale of Wandering Days Among the Mountains of Bolivia
and the Jungles of the Upper Amazon

Across the Andes A Tale of Wandering Days Among the Mountains of Bolivia and the Jungles of the Upper Amazon

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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">XIX. The Indian Uprising 266

XX. Ambushed by Ladrones 280
XXI. The Music of the Aymarás 289
XXII. Back Home 299
XXIII. Off Across the Continent in a Batalon 309
XXIV. Through the Rubber Country 321
XXV. A New Crew and Another Batalon 337
XXVI. The Falls of the Madeira and Home 350


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Running the Rapids of the Ratama Frontispiece
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Announced that a person, a somebody, was awaiting me below 13
Pointed scornfully to the outside 15
Agamemnon 18
Those who refused to pay were thrown into the chicken coop 35
When the end lid was taken off the bodies of eight dead Chinamen were taken out 37
A deserted brigantine at anchor dipped slowly with the long Pacific swells 42
What the diplomat said was direct and voluble 49
A wide dusty canal which in the intervals between showers serves as a market (facing page) 50
Close resemblance to an army of drunken bugs 52
Every day our winches whirred and clattered off some dusty, sand-blown port (facing page) 54
Lima, a delightful city of contrasts 58
An Arequipa carrier 78
In Arequipa, the city of churches (facing page) 80
Hardly a day without its Saint’s fiesta 83
An Andean touring car 85
In Pizarro’s day it was probably the same—costume, craft, and barter (facing page) 100
Haggled with arrieros over pack mules 104
Prisoners along the trail up from La Paz (facing page) 106
Aymará driver of pack llamas 111
Members of a gang of prisoners 112
The guard for the road menders 114
Rodriguez and his Cholo helpers tightened the rawhide cinches and replaced the packs 116
Aymará herders played their weird flutes 123
A few streets were still plainly marked, though the village has been dead these many centuries (facing page) 128
Blizzards blowing from the Andean passes 133
Soldering the food in tin cans 138
Scattered in hysterical flight up and down the precipitous slope 141
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