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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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41-? THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL from the shower of rockets and explod- ing missiles. The hand halts at each hovel for a drink of chicha, and then continues along the dusty way. In the vicinity of Cochabamba ilio Quichuas are rather civilized, com- 23aratively speaking, owing to their
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Quiehua woman from the Upper Pikomayo, who daily carried goat's milk to the expedition's camp. The front of her loose dress is tucked up for the walk down the mountain. Her shawl is fastened with spoon-shaped pins, tlie only jewelry common in the Quiehua country constant association with the Bolivians. As one goes farther toward the south, however, a marked change is noticeable. This reaches its climax in the regions ))ordering the Upper Pilcomayo. On one of our excursions we left the expedition's base at Sucre, and follow- ing the Potosi road for a distance of tliirty miles, made camp on the river bank. The bed of the Pilcomayo is several hundred feet wide at this point, and is spanned by a suspension bridge anchored at each end to picturesque towers. At the time of our visit the water was very low; the shallow, muddy stream, wending a sinuous course through the rock-strewn floor of the NaUcy. was not more than fifty feet .ici'oss. I eouhl not fail to be impressed witli the ditferenee in character of the river in the upper and the lower sirctclics of its course. Here it was hciniiicd in by towering peaks of rock ii;iiiii wliicli .siu-h a light growth of xcgctation obtains a foothold that it can support only a few flocks of goats, and tlu'se find great difficulty in eking out a bare existence; lower down, it sweeps through the steaming pantanales of tlu' Gran C'haco, and finally enters the Paraguay almost opposite to the i-ity of Asuncion, a majestic, awe-in- spiring river. As frequently occurs in semi-arid country, birds were very abundant; but there was little else to indicate the close l)roximity of other forms of life, un- less one took into account the herds of goats clambering about on the ledges and seeming to delight in bombarding (■\'ery one who ):)assed below with showt'rs of small stones; or the car- avans of burros and llamas passing along on the broad highway. A visit to tlie top of one of the neighboring moLintains, however, revealed a differ- ent story. Patches of green dotted the

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