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Title: The Spanish-American republics
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore, 1846-1892
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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n the hotel?I asked. Como no? The water is not crystalline, but it is cleanand fresh, and brought from the Aconcagua River by an acequia?Bueno, vamos a z^r,said I, and we went to see. And behold at theend of the garden was a tank some fifteen feet square, with waterrunning through it, and overhead, as a protection against the sun,vines laden with pendent bunches of grapes, forming, as it were, aceiling to the bath. This was delightful, and I bathed with joy.Now after a bath a man needs refreshment of some kind. Comono? was the invariable reply; and I was shown into a bar-room,where I found a greater variety of deleterious drinks than you wouldmeet with in similar establishments in Europe or the United States, AGRICULTURAL CHILL 63 and yet Los Andes does not boast 3500 inhabitants. Thus fortifiedand rejuvenated, I was prepared to dine and I succeeded in diningvery fairly, drank good Chilian wine, had a pleasant talk with myfriend Don Honorio and other gentlemen, and after dinner took a
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HOTEL COURT-YARD IN LOS ANDES. walk on the plaza, where therewas a zealous but inferior orchestraplaying for the distraction of allLos Andes, represented by a fewofficers, employes, and shop-keepers, a dozen ladies wearingParisian hats that were the fashion a year ago, and a few scoremodest natives, the women wearing black shawls drawn mantillawiseover their heads, and the men draped in ponchos, and sheltered fromindiscreet eyes by broad-brimmed white straw hats with black stringstied under the chin. The next day I explored Los Andes and its environs, and foundeverything pleasant and interesting. I must, however, observe, in jus-tice to Chili and the Chilians, that Los Andes is in reality a miserable 64 THE SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS. little place of no particular importance, but it is precisely on this ac-count that I dwell upon its agreeable features. I might have selectedfor my observations San Felipe, for instance, the capital of the prov-ince of Aconcagua, with 12,000 inhabitants

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