CONTENTS.
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PAXI BY DR. W. REISS—OTHER ASCENTS—ON ILLINIZA— PERPETUAL MISTS—WE ENCAMP AT 15,207 FEET—GLACIERS ON ILLINIZA—TUFTED SNOW-CORNICES—DEFEATED—WEATHER IN THE INTERIOR OF ECUADOR
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CHAPTER VII.
THE ASCENT OF COTOPAXI, AND A NIGHT ON THE SUMMIT.
START FOR COTOPAXI BY FREIHERR VON THIELMANN’S ROUTE—PEDREGAL—ABUNDANCE OF BEETLES ON THE PLAIN OF LIMPIOPONGO—COLPODES—BOMBS THROWN OUT BY COTOPAXI—WE CAMP AT 15,130 FEET—CULINARY TROUBLES—THE YANASACHE LAVA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS—ON VOLCANIC “ASH,” DUST, SANDS, AND LAPILLI—THE INSINUATING NATURE OF VOLCANIC DUST—DESCRIPTIONS BY PROF. T. G. DONNEY—THE WORSHIP OF THE CROSS—NATIVE ATTIRE—SHOES OF STRING—PREPARATIONS FOR THE ASCENT—FLORA OF THE CONE—THE START—CUMULUS CLOUD SEEN 23,000 FEET HIGH—GLACIERS ON COTOPAXI—ARRIVE AT THE TERMINAL SLOPE OF ASH—THE PREVALENT WINDS—REACH THE EDGE OF THE CRATER AND GO PARTLY ROUND IT—ENCAMP AT 19,500 FEET—WARMTH OF THE CONE—COLDNESS OF THE AIR—A NIGHT ON THE SUMMIT—ARE WE “HABITAUTED”?—INSPECTION OF THE CRATER BY NIGHT—PEROIDICAL STEAM-BLASTS—DESCRIPTION OF THE CRATER—“THERE WAS FIRE BELOW”—A GREAT SAFETY-VALVE—THE HEIGHT OF COTOPAXI—DESCENT TO PEDREGAL—SOME MORE “TREASURES”!
136–156
CHAPTER VIII.
THE FIRST ASCENT OF SINCHOLAGUA.
A SEVERELY SCIENTIFIC ASCENT—THE OLD STYLE—GIANTS WANTED— SINCHOLAGUA—CROSS THE RIO PITA—DECEITFUL GROUND—WARM SPRINGS— MANNER OF APPROACH TO THE SUMMIT—BEATEN BACK—THUNDER AND LIGHTNING—STEEPNESS OF THE IMMEDIATE SUMMIT—DEPARTURE FROM MACHACHI AND ARRIVAL AT QUITO
157–166
CHAPTER IX.
ON QUITO AND THE QUITONIANS.
THE BASIN OF QUITO—POPULATION OF THE CITY—QUEBRADAS—WATER AND WATER-CARRIERS—THE PANECILLO—MANNERS AND CUSTOMS AT QUITO—A TRUCULENT INNKEEPER—ON HEAD-GEAR AND HATS—INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT—HOW GENERAL VEINTEMILLA CAME INTO POWER—HISTORY—GARCIA MORENO—DEMONSTRATIONS—A PROMISING PEOPLE—MAÑANA—ECUADORIAN BONDS—INDIANS AT QUITO—PRICES IN ECUADOR—OPENINGS FOR COMMERCIAL ENTERPRIZE—ON BANKS AND MONEY—AN EASY WAY OF EARNING A DIVIDEND
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