The morning call., 1894-10-28

| advanced higher up the vegetation be-
! came better, and soon we were again 10
, between luXuriant fig trees, which clung
! to the rocks with enormous and numerous
| yellow roots, and which spread out their
| branches each one over perhaps half an
| acre of ground. The arroyo became q
narrow canyon and the vegetation as fine
| and luxIriapt az any / have seen in the
| country. A respectable stream of clear,
! beautiful water filled the roadbed and cul-
! tivated patches of sugar cane and orange
! trees appeared here and there, and later
! on everywhere MP on the sides of the steep
! walls of the canyon as verltable hanging
| gardens, of which Semiramis herself
might have been proud.
The little village of San BartOlo Is only
! gathering of huts and garden patches
| with numerous banana groves and palm
trees aud magnificently green cornfields,
! suspended and terraced one above the
! other. All this sudden Transformation is
| caused by an underground stream which
supplies all this running water. and which
| gushes out under steep bank clear,
| limpid and cool and sufficiently large to
! irrigate many thousand acres instead of a
! few hundreds, as now. If most of the wa
! ter was not allowed to go to waste aud
! sink in the dry arroyo bed below. Above
| this place the canyon again wldens out and
| becomes dry and there W as no more luxu-
RANT vegetation-only scanty one as the
we stopped at Rodeo or Santa Rosa LA,
where the water (when there is any) di.
vides, some flo ang east to the gulf, others
west to the Pacific.
The road lined due north and passing
over steep hills we reached San Antoni iC
late in the afternoon. and later ON Tri-
umfo.
Triumfo is mining place, the mines
being exceedingly rich 10 silver bearing
ores, and ore of the very few mines which
in this depression of silver values is vel
paying handsomely. The houses are
mostly miserable huis. surrounding the
rather well-bulr smelling works of tbe
American Mining Company. The very tai
chimney smokes day and night, the smoke
being seen for fifty miles In every direc
ton.
The mail-carrier, Senior Natalino Tamayo
had kindly offered US his services as
guide and companion ID carry Us safely
through to La PaZ, to which place leads tbt
only wagan-road in the country. and one
which really is extremely well built and ir
good preservation, almost like a racetrack
We stopped only for supper, and Travelled
all night down TO San Pedro. tweniy-fou
miles from La PaZ. At San Pedro We sue
ceeded after half an hours continue
knocking, in awaking mine host, and cof
fee anu tortillas were soon on the table
At O'Clock in the morning we were again
in The saddle, and at IN the morning a
La PaZ. after having been almost coBiinu
ously on horseback for twenty-five hours
without an hours sleep, having durin
that time travelled twenty-six leagues o
nearly eighty miles. We had made th
trip of $50 miles in two days and half, ol
the same animals, but also found that
had lost about seven pounds of superfiuou
weight. can recommend this trip as tn
very best means for my corpulent friend
at home who in vaiu are trying dietin
and exercise in the Olympic Club wit
the smallest possible amount OF success
GUSTAV EIsEN.
La Paz, Sept, 1894.