Оглавление
C. H. Prodgers. Adventures in Bolivia
Adventures in Bolivia
Table of Contents
PREFACE. TO RIDERS IN HIGH (AND LOWER) ALTITUDES
ADVENTURES IN BOLIVIA
CHAPTER I. THE CHALLANA RUBBER CONCESSION
CHAPTER II. AREQUIPA AND THE JURA BATHS
CHAPTER III. LAKE TITICACA, LA PAZ AND SORATA
CHAPTER IV. THE PEAK OF SORATA AND TIQUIRIPAGA
CHAPTER V. OVER THE QUILLAPATUNI PASS TO TIPUANI
CHAPTER VI. FROM TIPUANI TO PAROMA
CHAPTER VII. THE CABALLO CUNCO TREASURE: FIRST ATTEMPT
CHAPTER VIII. THE SECOND ATTEMPT
CHAPTER IX. THE THIRD ATTEMPT
CHAPTER X. A NOTE ON BOLIVIA AND HOW TO TRAVEL IN THOSE PARTS
Отрывок из книги
C. H. Prodgers
Published by Good Press, 2019
.....
Another was a merchant from Iquique, who arrived so racked with rheumatism that he could not even crawl, and had to be dumped down in the water in a blanket. In six months he left quite cured and restored to his normal weight and more; Morosine, the hotel-keeper, who was my informant, told me that he wrote to him two years after he had left and said that up to then he had not had a single ache or pain. Here is another case: After I had been there a couple of days a gentleman, who was staying in one of the little houses he was renting from the Municipality, came up to me and asked me whether I would mind doing him a favour. He had brought his wife there from Lima, to try the baths for a spinal complaint; he had been told of them by a doctor in Harley Street, London, whom he consulted and who said that he believed they could do more than any medical man. He told me she screamed out with pain when he and his servant carried her down, and asked me if I would mind carrying her down for him while I was there, as he thought it would be easier for her to be carried by one person. I did this for a few mornings, till she could manage to walk down the steps herself with my support, and in three weeks from the time I met her she was able to walk down by herself, and up too; after six months she went away cured. I met the man in Arequipa nine months after his wife’s treatment at the baths, and he said she had been out of pain for months; and a week or two after I had left Jura she was actually able to wait on herself. Yet another case was that of a man whom I met there, an engine driver on the Arequipa-Puno Railway, who was suffering from malignant ulcers which he had got while gold washing in the stream near the Santo Domingo Mine. He had been at Jura two months when I saw him, and had practically been cured, simply by drinking the waters from one of the several springs, and bathing in the baths twice a day. He told me he now had his cocktail, martine or gin and bitters before his lunch and dinner, just as he always did. I could mention many other cases.
There are two ways of staying at Jura. One is to put up at the hotel built by Morosini, an Italian, who was given ground and other facilities rent free by the Municipality of Arequipa for twenty-five years, provided he built an hotel with accommodation for ten or twelve guests, and was allowed to charge 6/-a day. The other is to rent one or more of the little stone houses owned by the Municipality for £3 a month each; these consist of two rooms with two chairs and a table in each, a kitchen and veranda, two mud-built beds, a brick oven, and the usual mudrange to hold four or five pots.
.....
