The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-16
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hymn of praise upon their knees; and
again at sunset when the labor of the day
is concluded, thanking heaven for their
lives of seryitude
l think it was in 1921 that the rather am
blguous law was passed which declared
that all those then in slavery should re-
main so during life, but that their children
should be free when arrived at The age of
fifty and the grandchildren were born free.
The avowed object of this slow process
was to gradually accustom the slaves to
the idea of liberty and to fit them TOR it
while at the same time their owners might
make ready for the change by importing
Chlnese, whose cheap labor, it was thought,
would prevent the negroes from
STRIKING FOR TOO HIGH WAGES,
when not entitled to any wages at all. In
1888, however, General Castillo, who was
the president of Peru, issued a decree pro-
claiming the freedom of all slaves AS was
anticipated, the majority of them were I'M
willing to leave their former masters to
whom they were endeared by almost pa
ternal kindness and the recollections of
childhood; and therefore the condition of
things was not perceptibly changed. 1t is
calculated that the '"keep" of one of these
negroes costs his master not less than forty
dollars year, and few OF them earn very
themselves, to work or play according to
their own desires, they would certainly earn
much less
short-line railway connects Pisco with
the cotton regions of Yea, running south
ward through the vine bearing plain and
across forty miles of desert. The capital
of this department, which is also called
Yea, is the largest town between Lima and
Arequipa. 1t lies inland about twenty
loo f,l froy r h,c !, !. j.
and range of sandy hills. About half
way between Pisco and Yea, the dusty
landscape is beautifed by forest of date
palms, covering an area of several miles, in
the midst of which stands a deserted haci
enda named Villa -Ceuri. The word is of
compound Spanish and Quichua origin. and
means 'City Of Gold" A good many In
dian graves are found hereabouts, each of
them containing not only its mummy, but
POTTERY, SMALL IDOLS, sPINDLEs AND
GOLDEN ORNAMENTS,
and the story has gone forth that the
ghosts of the dead have driven the usurp-
ers from the estate which occupies the site
of an ancient city.
The northern edge of the valley of Yea is
fringed with an enormous growth of carob
trees, or dlgOrbts, as they. are sometimes
called. This curious tree grows to great
pod which is highly priced as fodder for
mules and horses. So very hard is the
wood that its weight actually bends down
the trunk, twisting it round and round into
corkscrew shapes and making the branches
tie knots in themselves, till the tree as
sumes most fantastic forms. An imagina-
tive person may see Dore figures and faces
in every misshapen trunk, and long arms
stretched forth in wild despair.
Just beyond this enchanted wood'' is the
valuable estate of Macacones, which for
merly belonged to the Jesuit fathers, and
was the scene of one of the bloodiest bat
ties in the war for independence. Then
come vineyards and cotton fields, with
hedge-rows Of fig trees, iessamine and
roses: and then the neat little village which
f. persists in clubbing "Yea and Amen.n
1t contains about ten thousand inhabitants.
and lies in the midst of lovely plain about
six miles from the foot of the cordlllera.
The adobe houses are built in the prevailing