À travers les Andes. Son loomsera deux grumes posées sur le sol, sur quelleque la chaîne est étirée; la navette sera carvedfrom de l'os d'un mouton, et les fils seront battus en place avec l'os aiguisé d'un mouton. Des semaines peuvent être passées dans le tissage du patient. Qu'elle soit sur le trailor est tissage, elle a habituellement un bébé pudgy, sans pression expres d'une couleur de cuivre terni tenue dans le pli du poncho qui est noué sur les épaules des heroutes. Parfois, un Aymaragentleman prospère, v^ith ses animaux de paquet, passa usand puis il était susceptible d'être accompagné par les femmes et th de sev-eral Aymara

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Across the Andes . at. Her loomwill be two logs laid on the ground, on whichthe warp is stretched; the shuttle will be carvedfrom the bone of a sheep, and the threads willbe beaten into place with the sharpened shin-bone of a sheep. Weeks may be spent in thepatient weaving. Whether she is on the trailor is weaving, she has usually a pudgy, expres-sionless baby of a tarnished copper color held inthe fold of the poncho that is knotted across hershoulders. Sometimes a prosperous Aymaragentleman, v^ith his pack animals, passed usand then he was apt to be accompanied by sev-eral Aymara women and their assortment of tar-nished copper babies, the women being hiswives, who assist in the heavier work of drivingand packing with, complaisant domestic affec-tion. This road up from the great, raw gulch of LaPaz was full of life; pack-train after pack-trainpassed, loaded with the daily supplies for thatcity. All of the trails of the high plateau aboveconverge to feed it and it broadens out into a 114 ACROSS THE ANDES. thb guard for the road menders. real road, no longer a trail, under the needs ofthe heavier traffic. A group of sandaledsoldiers was apparently detailed to act as road-masters ; and they would stop the Aymaras andenforce a bit of labor in aid of the gang ofprisoners under their guard. The instant dulland sullen submission of the Indians at once in-dicated their position in the Bolivian scale. Steadily during the early morning hours weclimbed, until the rim of the high plateau itselfwas only a short distance ahead. Wornthrough the rim by generations of plodding O UT OF LA PAZ BY PACK TRAIN 115 hoofs was a crooked trail, so narrow that themules bumped and scrabbled along, and weemerged, as through a trap-door, out on the end-less distances of the vast inter-Andean plateau.Below, losing itself in the distant haze, stretchedthe ragged crack that made the valley of La Pazand miles away, quivering in the slowly warm-ing air, was the city itself, a tiny clutter of gaudyhou

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