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Identifier: cu31924021189315 Title: Chile today and tomorrow Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Joyce, Lilian Elwyn (Elliott), 1884- Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
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Text Appearing After Image: Valdivia, a Flourishing New Southern City. Punta Arenas, the Southernmost City in the World. Puerto Varas, facing Calbuco Volcano, Lake Llanquihue. IMMIGRATION 293 country was unclaimed, started to explore what wasstill virgin country to the white man. He lived onhoney and wild nuts, struggled through dense woodlandto the edge of Lake Llanquihue, chose his ground, andthen gave his chief Indian scout, the celebrated Pichi-Juan, thirty pesos to burn clearings through the heartof the forest. It was this Indian who brought the firstfifty yoke of oxen to the borders of the Gulf of Relon-cavi, driving them through the jungle from Osornoand opening the first track. Pichi-Juan took three months to burn a belt fiveleagues wide, and fifteen leagues long, through theOsorno Valley, leaving isolated woods to serve for house-material and fuel. Puerto Montt, at Melipillo, wasfounded in February, 1853, among blackened stumps,and the new colony, also of Germans, had two badwinters when the crops rotte
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