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Title: Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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me, too, was the case with the country onthe east. AVe passed Sangai Avithout seeing it, or any ,of themountains in its vicinity. On entering the forest, the range ofvision became even more circumscribed by the tortuous bends ofthe ever-winding track. Sometimes it was ill-marked, overgrownand readily lost.1 AVe went astray, and at night on the 11th werestill in the jungle, and retired to rest, supperless, on the top of thepacking-cases. Except for the pangs of hunger, and a growing apprehension that the steamer at Guayaquil would be missed, this descent through the forest would have been enjoyable. In the course of a day, the nakedness of the Interior changed to the luxuriance of the Tropics ; the increasing warmth was grateful; and presently 1 The descent commenced at about 11,160 feet above the sea, and continuedwithout intermission for more than 9000 feet. We saw the barometer rise six inchesand three-quarters upon the 11th of July. •sss TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. xx.
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chap. xx. A FRUITFUL LETTER. 389 on the morning of the 12th, passed through forest-trees rising150 feet high, mast-like, without a branch, laden with a parasiticgrowth. Then the sky began to be seen, a vista opened out—wehad arrived at the Valley of the Chimbo. The Bridge was a wooden structure, spanning the River justbefore it turned abruptly to the west. The Railway was hiddenaway in jungle, and had to be discovered. There was no station ortrain ; nor house or hut ; nor person or means of procuring infor-mation. The right bank of the river formed the Terminus. Theline ran up to the edge of the stream, without stops to prevent thetrain running into the water, and looked as if it had been cut inhalf by the torrent. The only indication of civilization was acontractors shed, mounted on wheels.1 Campana went down therails in search of life, and learnt that a train might arrive to-day,or perhaps it would come manana. We waited in hungry expecta-tion (paying off the arrieros in the meanw

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