362
Desert Trails of Atacama
Victoria copper mines, 35
Vicuña hunting, 247
Viento blanco, 232, 281
Vileapampa, Cordillera, 315
Villa Concepción, 221
Ville du Havre, 79 (ill.)
Vizeacha, 25, 139
Vizeachera, 284, 299
Volcanoes, 25, 46 (ill.), 258, 260, 264 (map), 276; Central Andes, 254; Poma, 207; volcanic country, 31 (ill.)
Wakefield, H. F., 134
War of the Pacific, 83, 183, 207; strategy, 89
Water, 8; Chaco, 222; Chilean coast streams, 11, 12; cost and scarcity, 171; government control, 113; oases, supply, 19; recovery in the desert, 20; struggle for, 119; waste, 319
Water clock, 131
Water rights, 182; Argentina, San Pedro de Atacama, 240
Water supply, 49; Africa, 130; hauling water by mules, 77 (ills.); mining demands at Copiapó, 163; nitrate industry, 76; Pucará, 312; Puna de Atacama, 278, 280, 282, 284, 285; quarrels about, 123, 164, 209; Sayate, 321; turno law, 119; two elements in the desert, 117. See also Turno
Water tunnels, 20
Watson, Mr., 15
Weather, 54
Western Cordillera, 34, 245 (ill), 262 (ill.); crossing in face of the wind, 278
Wheat, 174, 339
Wheelwright, William, 173, 176
Willis, Bailey, 92, opp. 110, 146, 147
Willow, 242
Wilson, H. M., 20
Wind, 79; Argentina, northwestern, 270; Puna de Atacama, 232, 276, 278; sail car on railroad, 79 (ill.)
Wine making, 162
Wood, 136. See also Firewood
Woodcutter, 15
Woodland, 187, 221; Argentina, northwestern, 190 (ill.); Argentina, northwestern, as affected by climatic change, 317; eastern border of Andes, outliers, 198 (ill.); interior-basin belt associated with, 253 (map); mountain slopes west of Salta, 269 (ill.); pasture and, 269 (ills.) 270; pasture and, on eastern border, 273 (diagrs.). See also Montaña
Wool, 302, 305, 308; alpaca, 340, 341
Worship, 72, 168, 213; Peruvian, 306; Susques Indians, 304, 305
Wrigley, G. M., 192
Yacuiba, 219, 225
Yerba, 225
Yungas, 211, 336
Zápar, 246
