[42] Mr. Bandelier (Islands of Titicaca and Koati) gives an interesting description of such a ceremony.
[43] Mountain Spirit.
[44] This line has now (December, 1912) been completed.
[45] I take these details from Dr. Romero's Los Lagos de los Altiplanos, translated from the French of Dr. Neveu Lemaire.
[46] The name Cholo properly means the offspring of a mestizo and an Indian, but it seems to be currently used to describe a peasant with a marked Indian strain.
[47] An admirable study of desert scenery may be found in a book by Mr. Van Dyke of Rutgers College (in New Jersey), entitled The Desert.
[48] Pronounced Oyawe.
[49] It is called Yareta, and reminds one a little (though it is larger and harder) of the Cherleria sedoides of the Scottish Highlands.
[50] In the thirty years from 1880 to 1909 the Chilean treasury received £82,637,000 (about $412,000,000) in export duties on nitrates.
[51] Buenos Aires, Rio, and São Paulo are the three larger cities.