CHAPTER XVIII

A NOTE UPON VITAL STATISTICS 333 Provinces and Population of Chile—Chilean Terms.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_Frontispiece_ Lake Llanquihue, South Chile _Maps_ (at end of volume) Political Map of Chile „ Railway Map of Chile

_Facing page_ Lake Todos los Santos 4 Balmaceda Glacier 6 Volcano San Pablo. Desert in Atacama Province. In Northern Antofagasta Province. The River Loa in the Dry Season 8 In the Strait of Magellan 10 Santa Lucia Hill, Santiago. Parque Forestal, Santiago. Municipal Offices, Santiago 12 Viña del Mar, Valparaiso’s Residential Suburb. Valparaiso Street, Viña del Mar. Race Course, Viña del Mar. Mira-Mar Beach, Viña del Mar 18 _Reproductions from Gay’s “History of Chile”_: Más a Tierra (Juan Fernández Group) Island in the 18th Century. Capturing Condors in the Chilean Andes. O’Higgins’ Parliament with the Araucanian Indians, March, 1793. Guanacos on the Edge of Laja Lake 42 In the Chilean Andes. A Chilean Glacier, Central Region. Rio Blanco Valley, above Los Andes 52 San Juan Bautista, Village of Cumberland Bay, Más a Tierra Island (Juan Fernández Group), 400 Miles West of Valparaiso. The Plain of Calavera, Chilean Andes 66 Last Hope Inlet (Ultima Esperanza). Channel in the Territory of Magellanes 94 Balmaceda Glacier, South Chile. In Smyth Channel, heading North from Magellan Strait 124 The Nitrate Pampa: Opening up Trench after Blasting. General View of Nitrate and Iodine Plant 152 Antofagasta. The Nitrate Wharves 174 Sewell Camp at Night. Sewell (El Teniente Copper Mines) near Rancagua 178 Sewell in the Snows of June. Railway between Rancagua and El Teniente 182 Curanilahue Coal Mine, Arauco Province. Dulcinea Copper Mine, Copiapó Province. Chuquicamata Copper Mines, Antofagasta Province 196 At Constitución, South of Santiago. San Cristobal Hill and Parque Forestal, Santiago. Malleco Bridge, near Collipulli 228 The Post Office, Santiago. Santiago, with the Snow-capped Andes in the Eastern Distance. Subercaseaux Palace, Santiago 242 On the Chilean Transandine Railway. Laguna del Portillo: near the Transandine line. Santa Rosa de los Andes, Chilean Terminus of the Transandine Railway 256 Coquimbo, the “Capital of North Chile.” Ancud, the Port of Chiloé Island. Zapallar, a beautiful Chilean Watering Place 260 Taltal, a Nitrate Port of North Chile. Puerto Corral, the Port of Valdivia, South Chile 264 Valdivia, a Flourishing New Southern City. Punta Arenas, the Southernmost City in the World. Puerto Varas, facing Calbuco Volcano, Lake Llanquihue 292 Araucanian Indian, spinning. Note the solid wooden wheel of the country cart. Araucanian Mother and Child. The hide-and-wood cradle is slung upon the woman’s back when she goes outside the hut 318

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