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

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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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