Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SENSATIONAL RAILROAD JOURNEY. CHAPTER III. I left Lima last Thursday night, conscious of having before me what would be perhaps the most wonderful trip I have ever made, and this proved to be the case, largely through a chain of fortunate circumstances. Mr. Smith had given me letters of introduction to the General Manager and Genera! Superintendent of the Central R. R. Co., of Peru, but, upon presentation, I found the General Manager had left town for a week, and the General Superintendent was up the road. I expressed my regret to Mr. Ottiker, also my disappointment, as I had hoped to ride the hind end going up the mountain ; a privilege only granted from headquarters. Mr. Ottiker kindly volunteered to secure this courtesy, and gave me the proper credentials, which, when presented to the conductors, gave me clearly to understand everything would be done to make the trip interesting. Mr. Maller, the representative of the Ingersoll-Rand Co., was with Mr. Ottiker, and joined me, which gave me delightful companionship. We staid at Chosica over night and regret we did not get there earlier, for it has the general appearance, seen in the moonlight, of being an attractive place; so much so indeed that I have de- cided to go up next Sunday and look it over, and will likely have something to say about it later. Before we start up the road, let me tell you something about it, quoting from a book gotten out by the Passenger Department. "Of all railroads in the world, the one from Lima to Oroya is the most extraordinary. It is still, after its pictures have served as stock geography illustrations for a generation, probably the most impressive piece of railroad engineering in the world. Built in the days when Peru was rich and reckless, it stands a monument of that time and to that ...