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 In the most hospitable manner Sefior Garay had prepared not the simple dinner to which he had invited me at Copiapd but a feast, and it was served with such charming simplicity and taste that it has a high place in my abundant recollections of Hispanic-American hospitality. Everything on the table, he explained to me, was grown upon the estate and reflected the

. 47—El Bramador, the Roaring Mountain of Toledo, in the Copiapó valley below Copiapó. The large sand dune shown in Fig. 48 is here seen just to the left of the summit of the mountain.

abundance and prosperity visible on every hand when we rode out over his fields. The piéce de résistance was a remarkable affair. He had stewed a fowl, roasted a pig, and boiled a sheep, and the cook had then put the fowl in the pig and the pig in the sheep, making a compact piece of meat which, when skillfully carved, presented cross sections of all three principal parts, giving one, as he said, as interesting a view of internal struc- ture as if it were a geological cross section.

From the hacienda the trail runs to the foot of El Bramador, where the famous sand dune is located which is the cause of the so-called “‘roaring”’ of the mountain. Leaving our riding mules