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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
U.S. Serial Set --CONTENTS.
Tarma--Inca road--Juaja valley--Quichua Indians--Trade--Juaja river--Snow mountains--Stone bridge and stone coal--Temperature of springs--Llamas--Lieutenant of police--Quicksilver mines of Huancavelica--Wool growing--Molina Posta, or Country tavern--Silver mines of Castro-Vireinas--Population of Huancavelica--Its mineral productions--Sandstone pyramids--Chicha and chupe--A New Englander among the Andes--Fruits and flowers of Huanta--Blacksmiths ... 1
Gold and silver ornaments--Bridal trip on the Andes--Manufacturers of bark rope--Cotton trees--Winds and currents of the mountains--Population--Cultivation--Flocks of sheep--Frosty nights--Reports of Robbers--Shoemaker--Ancient fortification--Indians travelling--Condor's wings--A padre on the road--Sugar-cane patches--Spanish creoles--An African slave--Apurimac bridge--Cabbage patch--Peruvian widow--Bull fight--Fish and horned cattle--Cuzco--Market place--Steamboat navigation--Eastern side of the Andes--Coca plantations--Head of Madre-de-Dios--Rivers Cosnípata, Tono and Piñipiñi--Forests--Tigers--Monkeys--Chuncho savages--View of the lowlands from a peak of the Andes--Cinchona bark gatherer ... 27
College of Sciences and Arts at Cuzco--Students--Library--Popularity of Fenimore Cooper's works--Convents--Cock-pits--Procession--Condition of the Aborigines anterior to the Incas--Manco Capac and his wife--Their language--Antiquities--Incas fortress--Worship of the planetary bodies--Suspicion of intercourse between ancient civilized Asia and south Peru--Temperature of bull's blood--Reception of the prefect's family--Sham fight among the Quichua Indians--Barley and corn crops--Trade--Loss of Paititi--Thermal springs--Hospitality of a Cura--Lampa--Gold mines of Carabaya--Lake Titicaca--Appearance of the Indians--Puno military--Niggardly soil ... 55
Manto silver mine--Trade--Shores of Lake Titicaca--Rush balsas--Animals--Loftiest mountains--Aymara Indians--Mode of cultivation--Bottled fish--Frontier of Peru--Rio Desaguedero--Rush bridge--Bolivia military and custom-house--Southeast tradewinds--Tiahuanaco ruins--Evaporation and precipitation--Planting small potatoes--Difficulty among postillions--City of La Paz--Population--Cinchona bark--Beni river and Madeira Plate--Transit duty--Gold washings of Tipuani--Productions of Yungas--Dried mutton and copper mines--Articles of the last constitution--A Bolivian lady's opinion of North Americans--Illimani snow peak--Church performances of the Aymaras--Benenguela silver mines--Growth of cedar bushes ... 96
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Silver mines of Sicasica--Productions of the Puna, or Table lands--An exile returning home--Department of Oruro--Silver, copper, and tin--Climate--A chicha factorer--The expedition out of Titicaca Basin, and into Madeira Plate--Department of Potosi--Population, climate, and productions--Rio Pilcomayo--Mint--Quicksilver trade--Imperfect mining operations--Smuggling of precious metals--Statistics of silver--Trade with the Argentine confederation--Port of Cobija--Desert of Atacama--Eastern side of the Andes--Frosty mountain tops and thermal streams--A washwoman--Cinchona bark ascending to the South Pacific--Department of Cochabamba--Increase of creoles--Incas colony of Quichua Indians--Hail storm--Gardens--Fig trees--City of Cochabamba--Hospitality of the merchants--The President of Bolivia and his cabinet--Commercial proposition--Brazilian minister--President Belzu--Cavalry and infantry--Armor of the Bolivian troops--Public force--Calacala gardens--Market people--Rio Mamoré--Legislative power--Church ceremony--Climate--A bishop's opinion of the consequences of steamboat navigation--Cabinet ministers--Reception of a Farmer by the President--Heavy shock of an earthquake--Sudden departure of the government--Clisa fair--Trade to the Pacific coast ... 121
Market place--Cinchona bark--Funeral ceremonies--Longevity--Kindness of British and Brazilian ministers--French schoolmistresses--Ancient habitations--Sucre, the capital--Departments of Chuquisaca and Tarija--River Bermejo--Distribution of vegetable life--Visit to Lake Uara-uara--Snow line--Balls--Theatre--Department of Santa Cruz--Creole population--Daily life--Province of Chiquitos--Indians--Labors of the Jesuits--Paraguay river ... 146
Diamonds--Animals of Chiquitos--Decree of 1837, and act of Congress--Señor Oliden's voyage on the Paraguay river--Salt--Fall of trees--Descending the mountains--Monkey meat--Coca plant--Espiritu Santo--Creole workmen--A night in the wild woods--Yuracares hunting--River San Mateo--Province of Yuracares ... 169
Cinchona forests--Indians shooting fish--Department of the Beni--Vinchuta--Small pox--Canichanas boat's crew--Cotton cloth and silver coins--Our faithful servant José Casas and the mules--Trade at Vinchuta--A night on Coni creek--Embarkation at the base of the Andes--Chaparé river--Canoe life--Floods--Bark cloth--Pick up the sick--Indians at prayers in the wilderness--Lassoing an alligator ... 193
Pass the mouth of Chimoré river--White cranes--Rio Mamoré--Woodbridge's Atlas--Night watch--"Masi" guard-house--Pampas--Ant-houses--Cattle--Religion--Sugar cane--Fishing party of Mojos Indians--River Ybaré--Pampas of Mojos--Pasture lands--City of Trinidad--Prefect--Housed in Mojos--Don Antonio de Barras Cordoza--Population of the Beni--Cotton Manufactures--Productions--Trade--Don Antonio's Amazonian boats--Jesuits--Languages--Natural intelligence of the Aborigines--Paintings--Cargoes of foreign goods in the plaza ... 218
Horned cattle and horses--"Peste"--Salt trade--Church service--Bull fight--Mariano Cuyaba--Rules and regulations of the town--Laws and customs of the Creoles--A walk through the plaza at midnight--Scenes on the road to the town of Loreto--Annual deluge--The beasts, birds, and fishes--Loreto--Inhabitants--Grove of tamarind trees--Winds of the Madeira Plate--A bird-hunter--Trapiche--A black tiger burnt out--Departure in Brazilian boats--Enter the Mamoré river again--An Indian overboard ... 240
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Exaltacion--Cayavabo Indians--Descending the Mamoré river--Indians shooting fish--Houbarayos savages and birds at midnight--Ascend the Itenez river--Forte do Principe da Beira, in Brazil--Negro soldiers--Kind attention of the commandante--Favorable notice of the expedition by the President of Matto Grosso--The wilderness--Friendship of Don Antonio, his boat, and a crew of negro soldiers--Departure for the Madeira river--Birds and fishes congregated at the mouth of the Itenez--On the Mamoré river again--A negro soldier's account of the Emperor's service--Roar of "Guajará-merim" Falls ... 263
Jacares savages--Mouth of the Beni river--Obstructions to steamboat navigation--Madeira river falls--Lighten the boat--Pot holes--Granite--Pedreneira falls--Caripuna savages--Pedro milks a savage woman--Bilious fever--Arrive at the foot of San Antonio falls--The impracticability of navigating by steamboats the falls of the Mamoré and Madeira rivers--Proposed road through the territory of Brazil to Bolivia--Physical strength of the white, black, and red men, compared under a tropical climate--Tamandua island--Turtle eggs--Oil-hunters--Borba--Mouth of the Madeira river ... 287
Observations with the sextant and artificial horizon--Meteorological observations--Table of distances in South Peru and Bolivia by government measurement--Boiling water measurements of heights above sea level--Map of roads and rivers, with situation of mineral wealth ... 315
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