Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-02-18

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Of contribution money. They old Indians very well
dressed, with standing collars and broad -brmmed hats
and respectable Quaker like air about them 1t ia
tive time with the priests also who go abroad among the
1 farmers for tithes.
The valley is all activity, and merry the people
Women visiting about from place to place asride OF
plump little jackasses. This is plentiful season.
When the crops fail these table lands the suffering
among the Indians is very great time is in Sepem
ber just before the rains commence. there are hard
rosts in February the chances are that famine follows
Crossing small ridge the east, we come in full
view Of the great valley Of uaa stretching away SOUTH
The snowy peaks represented in sketch from our
camp near the town.
Joses wife and children the tent and brought
supper and lucerne fos our mules One of the sons
fneookng boy of eighteen, volunteered to go with me-
Jose desired should let him Co. and had objection
but when his mother to ask me if was not salts
fed to take her husband without taking her and only
protector referred Jose and his to her. She set
tied the in her way and gave me her blessing
Juaja has population of about twenty-five hundred
Inhabitants say about because there is such thing as
law known at this elevation. The houses are
built one-story, of adobe walls of unburn BRICKS and
tile roofs the streets well paved and run at right
angles with each other pretty little whtewashed
church stands upon the plaza where the women sell their
marketing aud say their prayers The Indians come 70
market and church at the same time. Sunday morning
is the great market day. drove of small horses are
miserable looking rats The horse Of the lowands
and coasts much their superiors.
Men live to good old age in this climate; seventy,
eighty and ninety years common have arrived
hundred and twenty and hundred and thirty
under the impression that the Indians live longest
Mestzo and Spanish Creole girls have been known to
| bear children at eight and nine years OF age.
| The Spanish Creole population Is small They are
generally keepers the only dealers in foreign goods
which are Tetailed to the Indians At
an nducement for the Indians work silver mines,
existing three leagues the east of Juaa in the Andes
range, but which at present little worked The In
dams prefer blue in their dresses any other color and
consume considerable quantities Of indigo The demand
for in the churches is Of account Eggs and
wool the principal exports to Lima and are carried
the Cordleras on the backs OF Jaekasses Travel
lers do not know why they meet many bad eggs at
breakfast in Lima 1t is customary to pass them round
the country current money coins for some time be-
fore they sent to the coast to be eaten Mrs Jose
says three eggs will buy her glass of brandy six
pence worth Of any thing market The carrying trade
is superintendent by the Indians.
The Mestizos are shoemakers, blacksmiths, and sad
ders they fond Of usc and dancing and assume
the pride of superior and lord it the honest Indian
Our road lies through rich valley, often four miles
wide anu level floor. The mountains both sides
dry and unproductive, except in the ravines The
hafyearly displacement of earth is very great During
the rainy the mountain torrents down from
the summit loaded with SOIL The decrease in the size Of
the mountains from the time of their creation to the pre-
sent day. and the filling up of this basin, naturally leads
wonder whether the present valley was not once
lake The Juaa river which takes its rise in Lake Chin
chaycocka, to the north Of Tarma flows sluggshy and
serpentke through the whole length Of the valley and
creeping through the Andes suddenly PUSHES of at rapid
rate though sensible of its long Journey by the ucay
ali and Amazon to the Atlantic ocean These waters de-
scend 900 feet before they mnge with the briny
deep. The bed of the river is half mile wide and in
the wet is probably fifteen feet deep There is
very little water in it The banks break down per-
pendcuary The growth of small trees and flowers gives
fresh appearance to the valley, but the sun is very
pace along the dusty road The apple trees
are about the size of raspberry bushes.
There few varieties of birds in the valley
pigeons and doves keep the table pretty well supplied
Little Ignaco takes great interest in the sport and his
sharp eyes constantly the lookout for shot BY
the river snipe found, and among the flowers the
humming bird is and heard
The road number of dry beds Of streams Of
considerable size in the rainy There only water
enough at present for the washwomen whose soapsuds
spoil the water for beasts We pass through the vii
age of San Lorenzo and the small town OF Conception
deathke silence pervades these places The people are
in the fields except Creoes seated among the flow
ers in their neat little court-yards The streets are
narrow and the houses small. All the towns of the
Puma" built pretty much after the same fashion
and Of the materials the only difference in their
outward appearance being produced by the cultivation Of
foliage and flowers, where the climate and soil permits
When this is not the the town presents stupid I'M
interesting aspect Children dogs and pigs earhen pots
and beds of surround smoking fire the ground
floor of roomed the smoke escapes through the
doorway the only opening for change Of air. Du
ring night the door is closed one peep inside
satisfies the North American he can find no rest there But
here in the valley the cooking is done under the trees
and the inmates of the house wander out in the shade
We have often noticed expressions of friendship between
the children and dogs; the latter showing his pleasure by
waggng his tail, while the smiling child pulls his ears
The pig is the most restless creature at this height;
while by himself he is tossing up the bottom Of the
valley When he the child and dog together he gives
corkscrew motion to his tail, jumps and swings his
hams about with inviting grunt to play Before long
he is laying his side, with the child on top OF him,
while the dog is paving and swapping at that aughabe
twist Of the tail The affection the different species OF
animals have for another in these associations
is remarkable. The dog in any other place will Kill
sometimes and eat the sheep; here he protects 1t by
night and by day The pig forms an attachment to
the ackass who leaves it at this of the year Tor
the female of his own kind The becomes init.
be separated. The lamb follows the Indian girl in
direct disobedence and neglect of its mothers CALL Do
nestle cats are few they cannot live on high elevations
There is part Of Peru which is denscly popu
lated than the valley of Juaa There close under the
mountains the east side stands the Of Ocopa,
with its converts and schools. From that place mission
aries have branched off in different directions to the
forests in the cast at great risk Of life and loss Of all its
comforts teach the savage red how change his
others have failed and murdered driven back BY
the batte-axe their settlements destroyed by FIRE. and
years of labor lost yet some never tire.
Ignacio carries tent-pole the pumme OF his
saddle. His thirsty mule between two others loaded
with baggage the boy swept of and dropped over
the creatures heels into the middle Of the stream he
gained his saddle in short time his father laughed at
him and took the pole himself.
In the of the valley the remains Of an ancient
city, The soEe walls twelve feet high and from
to and half feet thick those of the present day are
generally adobe from three four feet thick Some Of
the buildings have been round others obong but gene
rally square, twelve by eighteen feet the round ones are