Chapter XXXII: Appendix: Table of Approximate Heights

Name of place. Height above Productions.
sea-level.

Feet.

San Antonio, lowest rapid 250 }
Guajará Mirim, upper rapid 510 } Sugar, maize, yams, plantains,
Exaltacion 710 } mandioca, tobacco, cocoa.
Trinidad 800 }

Coni 950 }
Santa Cruz 1,615 } Ditto, and coffee and coca.
Cristal Maio 1,920 }
El Chaco 3,250 }

Cuesta del Lina Tambo 6,150 }
Inca Corral 7,715 }
Los Jocotales 8,000 } Barley and potatoes.
Cuesta de Malaga 12,550 }
Cochi-janchi 10,950 }

Cochabamba 8,450 } Ditto, and wheat and fruits.

Pass near Totora 11,500 } Barley and potatoes.
Totora 10,000 }

Misque 7,000 } Wheat, barley, etc.,
Aiquile 7,850 } also fruits.

Chinguri 6,850 }
Quiroga 7,000 } Sugar, maize, etc.
Rio Grande 5,925 }
Palca 6,800 }

Jaboncillo, top of cuesta 8,615 }
Masa Cruz, ditto 8,550 }
Canto Molino 7,200 } Barley and potatoes.
Huata, foot of cuesta 8,200 }
” top of cuesta 10,100 }
Sucre 9,200 }

Nutshucc 8,000 } Maize, fruits, etc.
Rio Pilcomayo 7,000 }

Pampa Tambo 9,850 }
Quebrada Honda, top 12,000 }
” ” bottom 11,200 }
Potosí 13,500 }
Cerro de Potosí, summit 15,500 }
Tarapaya 11,200 } Barley and potatoes,
Yocalla 11,450 } up to about 12,500 feet.
Cuesta de Leñas, top 14,400 }
Pampa de Aullagas 12,400 }
Poopo 12,430 }
Oruro 12,530 }
Curahuara de Carangas 12,890 }
Sajáma, summit 21,470 }

EXPORTS FROM THE PORT OF ARICA DURING THE YEARS 1872-4, THE BULK OF THE ARTICLES BEING THE PRODUCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BOLIVIA.

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| Soft | Soft
_Minerals and precious metals._ |dollars.| dollars.
| |
Barilla, copper 178,748 cwts. of 100 lbs. @ | 18 | 3,217,464
” tin 29,923 ” ” | 16 | 478,768
Copper, in bars 1,078 ” ” | 38 | 40,964
Tin, in bars 29,255 ” ” | 30 | 877,650
Silver, pure 424,600 marks of 7·4 oz. ” | 12½ | 5,307,500
” old plate 2,083 ” ” | 10 | 20,830
” money 5,265 cases ” | 90 | 473,850
” hard dollars ” | | 1,414,880
” soft dollars ” | | 265,149
Gold, dust and grain 11,945 oz. ” | 20 | 238,900
Ditto, coin 6,010 ” ” | 20 | 120,200
_General Merchandise._ | |
Chocolate, manufactured 67 cwts. of 100 lbs. ” | 65 | 4,355
Cocoa, in nibs 50 ” ” | 36 | 1,800
Coca 531 ” ” | 60 | 31,860
Cochineal 750 lbs. ” | ¾ | 562
Coffee 943 cwts. of 100 lbs. ” | 38 | 35,834
Cotton 1,856 ” ” | 36 | 66,816
Elixir of coca 9 dozen ” | 15 | 135
Guaraná 40 cwts. of 100 lbs. ” | 15 | 600
Maté 153 ” ” | 50 | 7,650
Olives 77 ” ” | 18 | 1,386
Peruvian bark 28,835 ” ” | 80 | 2,306,800
Ratania root 20 ” ” | 60 | 1,200
Spirits Italia 139 dozen ” | 18 | 2,502
Tobacco 226 cwts. of 100 lbs. ” | 40 | 9,040
Hides, ox 15,136 ” | 5 | 75,680
Skins, Chinchilla 7,179 dozen ” | 25 | 179,475
” Biscacha 16 ” ” | 10 | 160
” Vicuña 4,586 ” | 1 | 4,586
” Goat 2,532 ” | ¾ | 1,899
” Sheep 150 dozen ” | 10 | 1,500
Wool, Alpaca 17,807 cwts. of 100 lbs. ” | 61 | 1,086,227
” Vicuña 21 ” ” | 80 | 1,680
” Guanaco 1½ ” ” | 70 | 105
” Sheep 1,153 ” ” | 29 | 33,437
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$16,311,444
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At 6½ per £ = £2,509,453
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Average value of twelve months’ export £836,484

TABLE SHOWING THE TEMPERATURE, RAINFALL, AND DEPTH OF FLOOD-WATER BELOW THE FALLS OF SAN ANTONIO ON THE MADEIRA RIVER, FROM OBSERVATIONS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR IN 1873.

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| Average Temperature. | Rainfall | Flood-water
Month. +---------+------------+in inches.| in feet.
| Lowest. | Highest. | |
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January | 75° | 83° | 15·85 | 34
February | 73° | 82° | 10·97 | 42
March | 74° | 82° | 14·59 | 46
April | 73° | 83° | 11·01 | 42
May | 73° | 83° | 5·96 | 35
June | 70° | 85° | 2·56 | 27
July | 71° | 87° | 0·32 | 21
August | 71° | 88° | 1·07 | 15
September | 72° | 88° | 5·70 | 7
October | 73° | 88° | 1·94 | 9
November | 73° | 84° | 11·32 | 9
December | 74° | 86° | 10·03 | 27
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ESTIMATE OF TIME AND EXPENSE OF A JOURNEY FROM LIVERPOOL TO PARÁ, THENCE ACROSS THE CONTINENT, AND RETURN TO ENGLAND.

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Stages. |Days.| Conveyance. | Approximate Expense.
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Liverpool to Pará | 12 |Steamer, Red Cross| Passage £25
| | Line or Booth’s | Personals 5
| | |
Pará to San Antonio | 13 |Steamer, Amazon | Passage 15
| | Steam Ship | Personals 5
| | Company, Limited|
| | |
San Antonio to Exaltacion| 50 |Canoe | Pay of 14 hands
Exaltacion to Trinidad | 10 | ” | say 2 months 85
Trinidad to Coni | 18 | ” | Keep of same 85
| | | Personals 30
| | | Say ⅕ of above 40
| | | ” ⅖ ” 80
| | |
Coni to Cochabamba | 7 |Mule | Hire of 4 mules
Cochabamba to Sucre | 7 | ” | and 1 arriero 12
Sucre to Potosí | 2 | ” | Personals 3
Potosí to Oruro | 7 | ” | Loss on purchase
Oruro to Tacna | 9 | ” | and sale of
| | | 4 mules say 50
| | | Personals 50
| | |
Tacna to Arica | 1 |Railway | Say 1
| | |
| | | soles
Arica to Panamá | 10 |Steamer | Royal Mail 353
Panamá to Aspinwall | 1 |Railway | Railway 30
Aspinwall to Southampton | 23 |Steamer | say— 80
| | | Personals, say 50
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Total days | 170 | | Total £616
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NOTE.—The foregoing is a very liberal estimate, particularly in the items of pay and keep of crew from San Antonio to Coni, but it is well to be liberal to the Indians both in pay and keep, as a traveller thereby ensures the health and contentment of his men. Also the item of loss on sale of mules is the outside amount that could be spent, but by good management it should be saved altogether. The cost of my journey from San Antonio to Southampton was as nearly as possible £400; adding £50, from Liverpool to San Antonio, would make the round trip to cost £450, and I believe it can be made for this amount.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET
AND CHARING CROSS.