The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-16

crow OF Peru, or turkey buzzard, waiting
Tor some dead thing TO end
Inns region used TO be proverbially I'M
healtny, and the people of Peru suffered
mucn from malarial fever until a ditch,
eight feet deep, was dug all around the
Town, a lew years ago, which has drained
on the moisture and made it one of the
most saIubrlous towns on the coast
THE PLAIN OF CANATE
IS thirteen miles long and extends in breadth
from the Cordilleras to the sea. To the
southwark are many small swamps, where
reeds are cultivated for making the mat
tlng which supports the straw roofs of the
houses; and then a barren bit, covered
win stony mounds and ciumps of date
palms, stretches away to the desert. But
10 the north it is very different In the
immediate vicinity of Pisco are rich pas
lures Tor mules, horses and cattle: mead
oWs OF alfalfa (troplcal clover), and vege-
table gardens, each field surrounded bv
nedge-rows of date palms, olive, orange,
hg and willow trees. Beyond are purple
vineyards and long reaches of yellowish-
green sugar,cane, each estate separated
from Its neighbor by rows of willows.
Inc grapes grown hereabouts are as
delicious as those of Southern France and
seem TO have absorbed the breath of the
nearby sea, as well as the sunshine of per-
petual summer. Great quantities of wine
and brandy, called ''Italia'' and ssPisco.n
are exported from this place and their man
ufacture is the principal industry of the
valley. We visited the store house of the
wlne-maker and found it to contain nearly
a thousand casks, each cask holding three
hundred gallons. l regret to say that am
unable to give you any figures, having neg
lected to lot down in my note book informa-
ton received on the spot; but the amount,
OF liquor made is marvellous, considering
the limited dristcict, and the value of the
exports are in full proportion.
''ITALIA" is THE FAvoRITE WHITE WINE
of Peru, though much too strong for gen
eral use, and ''Pisco,' though a most inno
cent looking beverage, being colorless as
water, contains more intoxication to the
cubic inch than any other known LIQUID.
unless 1T may be the meScdl of Mexico.
There is Portuguese here who produces
three distinct kinds of wine from the same
grape, one an excellent variety resembling
MADEIRA; another similar to the best Blu
cellas; and third much like the inferior
Rhine wines. THERE'S also very fine and
correspondingly expensive liquor distilled
from the large white grape, favored with
chirimoias, the latter being the most de-
llcious fruit to be found in the tropics All
along the beach are immense warehouses
where inc common ''Pisco'' is stored in
huge red jars shaped much like an egg
shell, waiting shipment to the various ports
of Peru and Chill.
Inc estates of Canate are mostly cult
waited by negroes, assisted oy a few China
men. The negro population of these coast
valleys was originally imported from Porto
Beilo, the great depot for the slave trade,
winch was chiefly in the hands of English
merchants during the first century after the
conquest. 1t was ola John Hawkins, one
OF the naval heroes of Queen Elizabeths
reign, who first set up a lucrative business
In African flesh and blood, between the
coast OF Sierra Leone and the Spanish col
onles 10 America. 1.-THE sins of the fathers
shall De visited upon the children" and
KETRIBuTIoN OVERLOOK TIE PIRATES BON,
oil this very vale of Canate, which had then
just begun to receive cargoes of human
merchandise. In 1894 Sir Richard Hawk