Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-07-16

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The fame of Mr. Edward Whymper tn
dauntless mountain climber, was fairly wp
upon the Alps some years ago and il vii
long be remembered that he was one of tb
survivors of the terrible disaster on the Mat
terhorn in July, 1855, when Mr.. Hadow, Lor
f. Douglas, and the Rev. G. Hudson with th
guide were killed by falling down tremen
dous precipice. Mr.. Whymper has more re
Gently devoted about twelve month to tn
exploration OF the Andes in South America
and has succeeded in reaching their hipbes
submits. In his lecture delivered before tn
| Alpine Club on the ascents of Chmborazo an
Cotopaxi, he stated that he took with hir
from home two well-known Swiss guides. Tn
height OF ChimboraZo which he ascende,
frst, was about 10000 feet, and up to tina
time no one, so far as he could learn, ba,
assembled higher than from 1900 to 1900
feet. He had to provide his own food. abou
two tons of the most portable condensed pro
VISIONS being sent out in tins for the exped
ton His ascent of the mountain began o,
December 23rd, 1879. The first camp bein,
pitched about $4,000 feet above the level O
the sea, they afterwards assembled to a heigh
OF $4,000 feet, where they placed provision
enough for three weeks, and fuel enough fo
snow. At that height he became feeble ant
ieverish, and was unable to satisfy the GRAY
ing for drink, added to which he had a bac
headache and much gasping when he wa
swallowing fluid. Under these circumstance
he used with great benefit chlorate of potash
which he had obtained before starting. Thu
camp was near rock of trachyte, which ros
to about $500 feet, there being on the east o
the ridge n conspicuous glacier, entirely fec
by the ice which fell from above. When the,
occupied new camping place about 7,4Oi
feet high, his state improved. On Januar,
IND, 1850, an attempt was made to reach tn,
summit but owing to an intensely cold wine
they were obliged to hasten back TO the camp
Afterwards encouraged by fine weather anc
continuous sunshine, they made anothe
attempt. Having at length reached wha
seemed to be the top, about a quarter to fou
IN the afternoon, they had the modification o
hnding that 1t was lower than another eeva.
ton. There was then no help for it but t,
make Tor the highest point, and they arrived
upon 1t, standing up like men instead o
groveling, as they had been doing for fiv,
hours like beasts The wind was blowing n
the rate of fifty miles an hour from the n. e.
and driving the snow before it, and they wer,
all cold, wet, and hungry. The temperatur,
there was 20 deg. Fair, which on being
worked out gave height at the summit o
Chmborazo of 20,5i5 feet They descended a.
hastily as they could to the camp before dark
ness made the descent impossible, and the,
got back at PM, having been out is hour.
and or foot the whole time. Altogether h,
spent seventeen days on Chimborazo at Is. OOC
feet OF altitude, $4,000 feet, and IL 800 feet
and went up three times as high as Is 800
feet, and when he quilted the mountain. al
trace OF mountain sickness had disappeared
Mr.. Whymper also described the ascent o
Cotopaxi, and said it was impossible to con
ceive more amazing spectacle than that vas
crater presented, illuminated as it was below
with ruddy subterranean fires, and above by q
brilliant moon The height of it was 1850
feet, and the camp was 1870 teet below. They
remained there 26 consecutive hours. He de-
scribed "a second ascent which he made on
Chimborazo nearly five months later, and the
height as tested in the same manner as before
was in this instance found to be 2O,iS9 feet
less than on the previous occasion, the mean
height OF the two being 2O,5l7 feet. illus
b'dted London Ners.
THE San Francisco Merchant of July lst
under the heading " Labor in Hawaii quotes
long article from the Chronicle of June goth,
aud states that the interview of the Ch,'onicls's
reporter with Mr.. j. d. Spreckels, was incor-
rectly reported. The Chronicles story pur-
ports to be narrated by one Chlansen "A Swede,
who had Escaped from ignominons bondage "
IN Maui. This mans story as told is snffici
emily terrible and sensational, but is easily
receivable into its two component parts, viz,
suppression of the truth, and suggestion of
the false. As to the former, the Merchant
points out that the alleged overcrowdng OF
the Bsta is due if true to the negligence Of the
Swedish Government. AS to the rate of
wages, it is higher than the immigrants were
accustomed to when at home, and if lower
than those demanded by Cinnamon, we imag-
Inc that it was for the express purpose of