Appendix
Table of Approximate Heights
| Name of place. | Height above sea-level. | Productions. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feet. | |||
| San Antonio, lowest rapid | 250 | } | Sugar, maize, yams, plantains, mandioca, tobacco, cocoa. |
| Guajará Mirim, upper rapid | 510 | } | |
| Exaltacion | 710 | } | |
| Trinidad | 800 | } | |
| Coni | 950 | } | Ditto, and coffee and coca. |
| Santa Cruz | 1,615 | } | |
| Cristal Maio | 1,920 | } | |
| El Chaco | 3,250 | } | |
| Cuesta del Lina Tambo | 6,150 | } | Barley and potatoes. |
| Inca Corral | 7,715 | } | |
| Los Jocotales | 8,000 | } | |
| 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., also fruits. |
| Aiquile | 7,850 | } | |
| Chinguri | 6,850 | } | Sugar, maize, etc. |
| Quiroga | 7,000 | } | |
| Rio Grande | 5,925 | } | |
| Palca | 6,800 | } | |
| Jaboncillo, top of cuesta | 8,615 | } | Barley and potatoes. |
| Masa Cruz, ditto | 8,550 | } | |
| Canto Molino | 7,200 | } | |
| 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 | } | Barley and potatoes, up to about 12,500 feet. |
| Quebrada Honda, top | 12,000 | } | |
| ″ ″ bottom | 11,200 | } | |
| Potosí | 13,500 | } | |
| Cerro de Potosí, summit | 15,500 | } | |
| Tarapaya | 11,200 | } | |
| Yocalla | 11,450 | } | |
| 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.
| Minerals and precious metals. | Soft dollars. | Soft 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 |
| $16,311,444 | |||||
| At 6½ per £ = | £2,509,453 | ||||
| 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.
| Month. | Average Temperature. | Rainfall in inches. | Flood-water in feet. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest. | Highest. | |||
| 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 |
Estimate of Time and Expense of a Journey From Liverpool to Pará, Thence Across the Continent, and Return to England
| Stages. | Days. | Conveyance. | Approximate Expense. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool to Pará | 12 | Steamer, Red Cross Line or Booth’s | Passage | £25 | |
| Personals | 5 | ||||
| Pará to San Antonio | 13 | Steamer, Amazon Steam Ship Company, Limited | Passage | 15 | |
| Personals | 5 | ||||
| San Antonio to Exaltacion | 50 | Canoe | Pay of 14 hands say 2 months | 85 | |
| Exaltacion to Trinidad | 10 | ″ | Keep of same | 85 | |
| Trinidad to Coni | 18 | ″ | Personals | 30 | |
| Say ⅕ of above | 40 | ||||
| ″ ⅖ ″ | 80 | ||||
| Coni to Cochabamba | 7 | Mule | Hire of 4 mules and 1 arriero | 12 | |
| Cochabamba to Sucre | 7 | ″ | Personals | 3 | |
| Sucre to Potosí | 2 | ″ | Loss on purchase and sale of 4 mules say | 50 | |
| Potosí to Oruro | 7 | ″ | Personals | 50 | |
| Oruro to Tacna | 9 | ″ | |||
| Tacna to Arica | 1 | Railway | Say | 1 | |
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| 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 | ||||
| Total days | 170 | Total | £616 | ||
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.