Box Elder News Journal | 1904-05-05 | Page 6 | On Muleback in Bolivia

f 0 on ki in n bolivia C J post who nho Is traveling through unk unknown novin south america for her har pers magazine writes in the march number of a danKer berous oui ride through the hie mountains of bolivia we kept on ascending between winding minding walls nalls he says at length emerging on oil a narrow table land the top ol of the cliffs we me had seen irom from the decks ot of the limed A short distance titer oer the leel ee ground and then ihen from the farther edge we looked down on the flat stony bottom ot of the vitor valley a ragged gorge that bound a tortuous course through the desert A narrow trail with short sharp angles Ag down doon a steep steel gully to the bottom the mules carefully picked their way aay down among the loose stones hailing balling inquiringly at times to choose perhaps a shorter cut if it seemed to their instinct lus fc feasible asble they gathered their hind legs under them their front hoots hoofs sticking stiffly out in ill front and slid don on oil their bellies in a cloud of dust and carrying with them a small avalanche of loose shale as they landed in a section of the trail below ton ou sit hack back in your saddle all saddles in these parts have bare crup pers and breastplates breast plates to pra praest ent your over the animals ears as you go down donn or slipping off behind as you go UP p it ft mountain path and as you watch the tossing line of packs below the speculation forces itself as the tha consequences ot of a mules misstep step that it is dot cot all idle speculation Is shown by the scattered skeletons below lathe valley bleached to varying degrees ot of dull white