The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-26
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ana nnally raised the sum OF SlU,U Tor his
release, which they paid over to the Jefe,
who certainly had no right to it beyond that
of temporary military power, ana the ille-
gally imprisoned gentleman was set at lib
erty. A few months ago Mr.. Mac Cord was
again made superintendent of this same
road to the satisfaction of all concerned; ;
and affairs are now going as smoothly as
anything can be expected to in Peru.
a few miles from Crucero Alto is Vim
| cocaya, the very Hottest village in all the
world, unless it may be some Of those in
Central Asia, Il, $50 feet above the sea. 1t
is higher than the celebrated mines of Cerro
del Pasco, higher even than famous Potosi !;
higher than either Quito, Ecuador or Lead
! vile, Colorado; nearly twice as high as the
: Alpine Hospice of Saint Bernard. Andif
{ one were to put another Mount Washing
| ton on top of the present one, it's summit
would still be almost 1000 feet lower down
than Vincocaya! This Andean village is
purely creation OF the railroad and boasts
of all the adiupcts of a relay and repairing
station, as well as of q so called American
inn, Ell Hotel Empresa. Why American
l do not know, as the landlord and his wife
/ are rosy-cheeked, hardy looking Germans
and hardy indeed one needs to be to live so
near the stars. Professor Orion of Vassar
! college, was
OBLIGED TO PASS NIGHT HERE,
and, accustomed as he was to the mountain
air from his life in Quito, wrote that he
could not sleep at all, but spent the time
painting for breath.
/ Long before we arrive at Vincocaya. com
ing from either end of the line, nearly
everybody is suffering from sirroche. in
greater or less degree. Strange to say, fire.
quent passing over the same heights does
not exempt one from the distressing COM
plant, and the strongest and healthiest
seem to be more Frustrated by it than the
sickly, with the exception of one of our i'm
mediate party, a consumptiye young Chill
ian, travelling to prolong his span of life
whose sunken chest heaves painfully in the
effort of respiration, and whose pale face
has taken on a CHASTITY grayish blue. Poor
little F., whose heart is easily disturbed
from it's regular work, lies helpless among
the rugs and furs, with purple face and icy
extremities. Several passengers are re
lieved by copious flow of blood from the
nose; and a Jolly Englishman from Are.
quipa. who weighs nearly three hundred
pounds, and says he was never Ill in his life
except when passing over this road, ha'
turned the color of boiled lobster, and
gasping with suffocation, holds his heat
/ with both hands, declaring that it is abou
to burst.
The remedies commonly made use of ar,
| BRANDY AND BROMlDE Of fOIASSl,
] assisted by various smelling salts and tn,
odor of raw onions. The natives believe 81
implicitly in the latter preventive that no
one of them will travel in the higher alti
tudes without generous supply, which h
cuts and shifts at leisure, though it b.
strong enough to draw tears from the eye
of craven image. When mules and horse
are Frustrated with sirroche, the usua
cure is to stuff slices of raw onions up thu
creatures nostrils. Many people canno
make this journey at all, especially those o
exceptionally 'sfull habit, " or who have an,
chronic heart trouble have known more
than one person to set out bravely for Bo
livia, who was obliged to give it up befor
the highest point on the road was reached
ii fresh from an ocean voyage, or afte
long residence near the level of the sea, tn
safer way would be to tarry awhile mid
way, say at Arequipa, which has an alti
tude little less than 5000 feet, in order &
accustom ones self by degrees to the oxy
J genless air.
The traveller on this railway is CONSTANT,
reminded OF that celebrated painting GALE
1.-THE HEART OF THE ANDES"
and realizes that he he's found the yer
SPOT. 1t is always bitterly cold on tn
mountain tops, and when, at Vincocaya. w