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Title: Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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es of Pichincha ; going at first over a small col,an^l descending on the village of Lloa, then ascending throughmeadows, followed by a considerable stretch of wood. In anunctuous rut between walls of earth, one of our mules flounderedand fell with its legs doubled underneath ; and our chief arriero—a Chillogallo man—after a few feeble efforts, would have aban-doned it on the spot. Then we experienced the usual afternoonshower-bath, and, getting into the clouds, became perplexed as toour whereabouts. Camped at 4 p.m.2 in sleet and drizzle, unableto see a hundred yards in any direction, and sent the animals andnatives back to Lloa. At night, when the atmosphere cleared, it was seen that wehad camped about midway between the two peaks of Pichincha, 1 The village of Chillogallo is principally occupied by arrieros. It is seldompossible to obtain horses or mules in Quito itself. If wanted, they have to beprocured from Chillogallo. 2 The height of this camp was 14.007 feet above the sea.
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CHAP. xi. SECOND CAMP ON P1CH1NCIIA. 209 which we conjectured were those that are called Guagua andlinen.1 Although there are numerous allusions in the works ofprevious writers to these summits and to the craters of Pichincha,and we had met various persons in Quito who claimed to havevisited the craters (for it was said there were several), I was unableto tell from anything that had been said or heard what was therelative position of the summits/ or where the craters were located ;and when these two peaks made their appearance we were notcertain which of the two was the higher. The right hand oreastern one appeared to be the lower and the easier to ascend,and I sent Louis to tackle it, while Jean-Antoine and Veritywent to pay their attentions to the other. During their absence I mounted to the depression in the ridgeconnecting the two peaks, or ensillada as it is termed,3 and foundthat on the other side it descended very steeply. So far as mistwould permit one to see, this was the hea

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