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Up the Amazon and Madeira rivers, through Bolivia and Peru

Chapter 37: APPENDIX.
By Edward D. Mathews
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A travel narrative recounts an expedition up Amazonian tributaries and an overland route across the Andes, detailing river navigation, rapids, portages, and the logistics of canoe and steamer travel. It documents landscape, vegetation, wildlife, climate, and health hazards, and explains local economic practices such as rubber collection and riverine commerce. The account records encounters with Indigenous communities, missions, and settler outposts, and offers practical guidance on provisions, trade goods, and expenses. Maps, sketches, and observations about a proposed railway complement the practical advice for prospective travelers and those interested in the route's engineering challenges.

APPENDIX.

TABLE OF APPROXIMATE HEIGHTS.

Name of place. Height above sea-level. Productions.
Feet.
San Antonio, lowest rapid 250 } Sugar, maize, yams, plantains, mandioca, tobacco, cocoa.
Guajará Mirim, upper rapid 510 }
Exaltacion 710 }
Trinidad 800 }
Coni 950 } Ditto, and coffee and coca.
Santa Cruz 1,615 }
Cristal Maio 1,920 }
El Chaco 3,250 }
Cuesta del Lina Tambo 6,150 } Barley and potatoes.
Inca Corral 7,715 }
Los Jocotales 8,000 }
Cuesta de Malaga 12,550 }
Cochi-janchi 10,950 }
Cochabamba 8,450 } Ditto, and wheat and fruits.
Pass near Totora 11,500 } Barley and potatoes.
Totora 10,000 }
Misque 7,000 } Wheat, barley, etc., also fruits.
Aiquile 7,850 }
Chinguri 6,850 } Sugar, maize, etc.
Quiroga 7,000 }
Rio Grande 5,925 }
Palca 6,800 }
Jaboncillo, top of cuesta 8,615 } Barley and potatoes.
Masa Cruz, ditto 8,550 }
Canto Molino 7,200 }
Huata, foot of cuesta 8,200 }
” top of cuesta 10,100 }
Sucre 9,200 }
Nutshucc 8,000 } Maize, fruits, etc.
Rio Pilcomayo 7,000 }
Pampa Tambo 9,850 } Barley and potatoes, up to about 12,500 feet.
Quebrada Honda, top 12,000 }
” ” bottom 11,200 }
Potosí 13,500 }
Cerro de Potosí, summit 15,500 }
Tarapaya 11,200 }
Yocalla 11,450 }
Cuesta de Leñas, top 14,400 }
Pampa de Aullagas 12,400 }
Poopo 12,430 }
Oruro 12,530 }
Curahuara de Carangas 12,890 }
Sajáma, summit 21,470 }

Exports from the Port of Arica during the Years 1872-4, the Bulk of the Articles being the Produce of the Republic of Bolivia.

Minerals and precious metals. Soft
dollars.		 Soft
dollars.
Barilla, copper 178,748 cwts. of 100 lbs. @ 18 3,217,464
” tin 29,923 ” ” 16 478,768
Copper, in bars 1,078 ” ” 38 40,964
Tin, in bars 29,255 ” ” 30 877,650
Silver, pure 424,600 marks of 7·4 oz. ” 12½ 5,307,500
” old plate 2,083 ” ” 10 20,830
” money 5,265 cases ” 90 473,850
” hard dollars ” 1,414,880
” soft dollars ” 265,149
Gold, dust and grain 11,945 oz. ” 20 238,900
Ditto, coin 6,010 ” ” 20 120,200
General Merchandise.
Chocolate, manufactured 67 cwts. of 100 lbs. ” 65 4,355
Cocoa, in nibs 50 ” ” 36 1,800
Coca 531 ” ” 60 31,860
Cochineal 750 lbs. ” ¾ 562
Coffee 943 cwts. of 100 lbs. ” 38 35,834
Cotton 1,856 ” ” 36 66,816
Elixir of coca 9 dozen ” 15 135
Guaraná 40 cwts. of 100 lbs. ” 15 600
Maté 153 ” ” 50 7,650
Olives 77 ” ” 18 1,386
Peruvian bark 28,835 ” ” 80 2,306,800
Ratania root 20 ” ” 60 1,200
Spirits Italia 139 dozen ” 18 2,502
Tobacco 226 cwts. of 100 lbs. ” 40 9,040
Hides, ox 15,136 ” 5 75,680
Skins, Chinchilla 7,179 dozen ” 25 179,475
” Biscacha 16 ” ” 10 160
” Vicuña 4,586 ” 1 4,586
” Goat 2,532 ” ¾ 1,899
” Sheep 150 dozen ” 10 1,500
Wool, Alpaca 17,807 cwts. of 100 lbs. ” 61 1,086,227
” Vicuña 21 ” ” 80 1,680
” Guanaco 1½ ” ” 70 105
” Sheep 1,153 ” ” 29 33,437
$16,311,444
At 6½ per £ = £2,509,453
Average value of twelve months’ export £836,484

Table showing the Temperature, Rainfall, and Depth of Flood-water below the Falls of San Antonio on the Madeira River, from Observations taken by the Author in 1873.

Month. Average Temperature. Rainfall
in inches.		 Flood-water
in feet.
Lowest. Highest.
January 75° 83° 15·85 34
February 73° 82° 10·97 42
March 74° 82° 14·59 46
April 73° 83° 11·01 42
May 73° 83° 5·96 35
June 70° 85° 2·56 27
July 71° 87° 0·32 21
August 71° 88° 1·07 15
September 72° 88° 5·70 7
October 73° 88° 1·94 9
November 73° 84° 11·32 9
December 74° 86° 10·03 27

Estimate of Time and Expense of a Journey from Liverpool to Pará, thence across the Continent, and return to England.

Stages. Days. Conveyance. Approximate Expense.
Liverpool to Pará 12 Steamer, Red Cross Line or Booth’s Passage £25
Personals 5
Pará to San Antonio 13 Steamer, Amazon Steam Ship Company, Limited Passage 15
Personals 5
San Antonio to Exaltacion 50 Canoe Pay of 14 hands say 2 months 85
Exaltacion to Trinidad 10 ” Keep of same 85
Trinidad to Coni 18 ” Personals 30
Say ⅕ of above 40
  ”   ⅖ ” 80
Coni to Cochabamba 7 Mule Hire of 4 mules and 1 arriero 12
Cochabamba to Sucre 7 ” Personals 3
Sucre to Potosí 2 ” Loss on purchase and sale of 4 mules say 50
Potosí to Oruro 7 ” Personals 50
Oruro to Tacna 9 ”
Tacna to Arica 1 Railway Say 1
soles
Arica to Panamá 10 Steamer Royal Mail 353
Panamá to Aspinwall 1 Railway Railway 30
Aspinwall to Southampton 23 Steamer say— 80
Personals, say 50
Total days 170 Total £616

Note.—The foregoing is a very liberal estimate, particularly in the items of pay and keep of crew from San Antonio to Coni, but it is well to be liberal to the Indians both in pay and keep, as a traveller thereby ensures the health and contentment of his men. Also the item of loss on sale of mules is the outside amount that could be spent, but by good management it should be saved altogether. The cost of my journey from San Antonio to Southampton was as nearly as possible £400; adding £50, from Liverpool to San Antonio, would make the round trip to cost £450, and I believe it can be made for this amount.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET
AND CHARING CROSS.