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Narrative of a Journey Across the Cordillera of the Andes, and of a Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of Peru, in 1823 and 1824 (v. 1)
Narrative of a Journey Across the Cordillera of the Andes and of a Residence in Lima and Other Parts of Peru in 1823 and 1824 - v. 1 Author:Robert Proctor Volume: v. 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1825 Original Publisher: Printed for Archiblad Constable Edinburgh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial a... more »ccess to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 20 AN ACCIDENT. CHAPTER IV. Accident at an arroyo -- Accommodations at a guard'house -- National song of Buenos Ayres -- Villages of La Cruz Alta, Cabezo del Tigre, and Saladillo. It was always my custom to send forward the guide about a mile before we came to the post-house, in order that the horses might be driven up to the corral by the time the carriages should arrive. He had just left us near an arroyo, which, though swollen by the recent rains, he crossed himself without much trouble, and I followed next, but my horse had considerable difficulty in extricating his legs, which sunk deeply into the mud. The carretilla with the baggage succeeded me, and stuck fast in the middle, the horses after great exertion falling successively quite hampered with the mire. The car- reton was next driven into the stream, and I was in hopes that as it was lighter it would get over it more easily; but it had not advanced so far as the carretilla when the horses floundered and fell, the peons all scrambling to shore as well as they could. We had continued our e'ndeavours to raise the horses in vain for about half an hour, when I determined to send a peon on my horse for assistance ; but luckily, GUARD-HOUSE. 21 just as I was despatching him, four or five men arrived with horses from the posta, the master thinking it impossible that the carriages could get out of the brook without assistance. The peons now ventured carefully into the mud, and fastening lassos round the fallen horses, they were dragged on shore. They then proceeded to atta...« less