The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-06
IN THE FAR SOUTH.
The Ravages Caused by the
Disease Ia Grippe.
THE VALLEY OF THE YUNGAS
How 1t Looks Beyond the Last Andeam
Chain, Near the Head Waters
of the Amazon.
THE VALLEY OF THE YUNGAS

LA PAz, Bolivia, June 80, $780, Especial |
correspondence of The HERALD. We |
have been fleeing, far and fast, before the |
dreaded grip, but with Indifferent success. |
1t was hoped that the interchangeable traveller
which has nearly circumnavlgated the
globe might somehow miss South America,
but, like thief in the night, it came, ap
pearing simultaneously on b0Sh sides of the
continent, in Buenos Ayres, Valparaiso
and Lima, soon making sad havoc in all the
coast cities.
AT that time we were in the midst of some
most
INTERESTING RESEARCHES IN PERU;
but as one of our party is consumptive,
travelling expressly to prolong his span of
life. and another had been repeatedly
warned by physicials to escape influenza at
any cost, on account of chronic throat
trouble, we stood not upon the order of go
ing, but went at once. Stopping awhile in
Arequipa, lovely old city eastern Peru,
it happened one day that the whole garri-
son of wretched soldiers fell down as one
man under the stern grasp of the grip.
Then we fed to Bolivia, the great but al
most unknown republic that lies corner
wise between Peru, Brazil, the Argentine
country and Chill, in the vain hope that the
disease might expend its force near sea
level and not cross the intervening cordil-
leras of the Andes, the seven successive
walls snow-topped and sky -piercing, with
the deserts and great lakes that lie be-
tween.
n 1,,%1
in the world, and of
TIE WONDERFUL JOURNEY TO BOLIVIA
by the railroad that reaches the highest
point where wheel was ever turned by
steam. twice as high as the celebrated
Hosp ce of ST Bernard, will tell you later,
as We are going directly back over the
same route to complete the abandoned re
searches. Leaving the eternal summer OF
Arequipa in the morning, we took midday
lunch in a snow storm, nearly fifteen thou
sand feet above the sea, and the same night
reached Puno, the last town in Peru, on tn,
western edge of Lake Titicaca, at thu
height of about L, 800 feet.
Here we tarried to recover breath. yer,
difficult thing IN these parts, where al
travellers suffer from the distressing com
plant called sirrocne, before yenturing int
the higher attitudes of Bolivia. But tn,
grip went faster than we, and two day
after we arrived in PUno that town wa
almost as bad as AreQuipa.
Crossing Lake 1iticaca, the highest navi
gable water on the face of the earth. as wei
as the coolest stormiest and most disagree
able, whose sacred islands, of the LONG
dead Incas yet show their
RUINED TEMPLES OF sun WORSHIP
and moon worship, we came to La Paz, tn
melancholy city which is not really the car
toll f ls..ii. oh .l-, n
government Here we remained for tim
ia comparative safety, congratulating oul
selves that at last place had been found S
forbidding that even influenza would shu
it. But again we had reckoneG without GU
host, and one fine morning awakened to tn
knowledge that fully 20 per cent of tn
city's population were wrestling with til
scourge.
There was but one way of escape, to ru
away into the interior, beyond the border
of civilization and almost beyond I'll
haunts OF man. THERE'S but one such patl
way leading out of La PaZ except in tt
direction from whence came the enemy. an
that is 10 the tropical valley of Yunga
where are raised most of Bolivia's coco
and coffee, fruits, wines and sugar. A
arrlero, or muleteer, was quickly engage
who supplied mule for each person an
several for carrying our beds, provision
hampers, and other luggage; a mozo,
uldD- ant, was bdhen III LOW, ana ear
one morning the fight into Egypt began
But alas! The enemy from which we FIX
went with US
IN THE THROAT OF TIE ARRIERo.
The second day out he developed the or
in its worst form, which speedily ran in
pneumonia. We were compelled to lea
the poor fellow at farm house, after DOH
all that was possible for his comfort, lea
ing medicines and money with the Peep
who took him in charge; but in little mo
than a week he was dead.
While on the influenza subject it may n
be amiss to add few facts concerning
caprices on the southern continent. In {
higher ATTITUDES tho disease has been III
formly light, unless the lungs became
volved, in which case death was almt
sure to ensue. Among the people of (
coast larger percentage of cases have be
fatal. The Gillian newspapers state, wi
what truth do not know, that the disea
returned to some villages which it mad
ready devasted and, in many instances,
tackled the same victim a second tin
However it must be taken into accou
that for months past it has been the fas
ion, the wide world over, to cali every CT
the grip Strange to say, Chili's capt.
Santiago, suffered much more than
neighbor, Valparaiso, although the form
is supposed to be the healthier city, and
Lima, Peru, though at one time nearly I
entire population was Frustrated, Il
deaths were reported.
HAPPILY FOR US,
Bolivia went through its severest ord
during our two weeks absence at Yung
In the hotel where our rooms were retain