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In the end of the year 1885 I went to Buenos Aires and remained there for some months. It was at that date an Old Spanish city, consisting Of houses Of one storey, enclosing patios and gardens exactly as they had been built since the earliest days Of the Spanish colonis anon. A few local railways connected the capital with towns in the Province Of Buenos Aires. In the early part of 1886 the first railway across the Pampa was completed to the city Of Mendoza, at the foot of the Cordillera, and I travelled over it to Mendoza a few days after it was Opened. Having remained some weeks in that city, I crossed the Andes to Chili, as it had been crossed from time immemorial, on mule-back. The ride occupied five days; but no other five days of my life have been so well filled. From start to finish they were crowded with revelations of new experience, new incident, new accident; fatiguing they were, it is true, but worth it all and many times more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
