Note 26 — Chapter VI · APPROACHING THE ANDES
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Since writing the above I have discovered that both Antonio Raimondi of Lima, Peru, and Col. Geo. E. Church had arrived independently at a similar conclusion to my own. “The Andes,” writes Col. Church, “at least within the tropics, are at times a gigantic electric battery, and so highly charged that they are very dangerous to cross.”—The Geographical Journal, pp. 341, 342, April, 1901. ↑