The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-26

Misti, apparently, but in reality separated
from it about seventy miles by the plains
of La Joya, is another snow-topped senti-
mel called Coropuna, nearly $4,000 feet
high. Then there is Charchaui, little
north of MIST, about 10, 900 feet high; Pic
hupicha to the southwark, 1880 feet, and
Ell Ubinas, only 10000 feet, whose latest
eruption occurred late in bhe sixteenth CEN
fury.
BUT MIsTI IS GRANDEsT OF ALL,
though 5000 feet nearer to earthly things
than Coropuna, probably because the
beauty of its cone is not detracted from by
too near neighbors. Many wild tales are
connected with this mountain, some OF
them an outgrowth of Indian superstitions.
The Aymaras and Quichuas, who come
down from Puno and above to Arequipa, if
compelled by business to remain few days
in the lower attitudes, which affect them as
unpleasantly as the heights do US, invari-
ably go with their llamas away up into the
wild recesses of Misti to rest themselves"
as they say, and also to perform some un
known religious ceremonies.
Not great while ago. two young Eng
lishmen, residing in Arequipa, undertook to
explore Misti actuated purely by spirit
of adventure, and also to discover posi-
BILE trail which might be followed to the
other side and thus save the customary
wide detour. The Oldest was man of
twenty eight years, the other a lad of seven
teen. Well equipped they set out gaily,
with no thought of the fate that awaited
them. Failing to return in course of time :,
a party at length went forth to look for
them. After a weary search the bodies of
the two were found, the elder in crouch
ing attitude, with his back against rock :;
and the boy who had evidently committed
suicide, living at the foot of nearby pre-
clpice.
FROM SCRAPS OF WRITING
in their notebooks, it was learned they
lived at least three days without food or
water having lost their way on the far side
of the great mountain, and travelled round
and round in its Jrackless SHOWS. The man
died first. from cold, exposure and starva-
ton; but youth is hard to kill, and the lad,
crazed by the awful silence and the loss of
his companion, paced to and fro beside the
corpse another long night. and at last in
J his dispair, had thrown himself over the
precipice.
At Arequipia pronounced Are-ikeep-
aha), one of the Oldest and most interesting
cities in Peru-to which we shall return
, later on-the traveller must stop over night
having arrived about dark on the day he
leaves Puno, and taking the same train
next morning for Mollendo. Along the side
of the track. for a distance of more thar
, eighty-five miles, runs an eight-inch iror
=.
Mollendo and the intervening stations
there being none near the coast COMING
from springs in the mountains near Are
uuipa 1000 feet above the sea and extend
ing to the Pacific it is the longest acque-
duct in the world. and is capable Of dis
charging 100000 gallons of water during
every twenty -four hours.
From Arequipa to the ocean is 1O7 miles
and most of the route lies across
After descending the shoreward range O.
the Andes, the train zig-zags rapidly dowr
|, the barren foothills to the great desert
3 which it crosses with directness il
marked contrast to its tortuous cours
! among the heights, and finally reaches thu
: shore, where it winds for long distanc
close to its edge before coming to the pres
i ent port.
In its narrowest place the desert is abou
sixty miles across, and before the day 0
the railroad the journey had to be made OF
= donkey-back Then it was customary t.
cross it in the night to avoid the heat an,
: the glare of the sun, which must have beef
! intolerable, Judging from the accounts o
3 travellers. One who crossed in this man
1 ner but failed to preach Arequipa before sun
rise, says that s'about five O'Clock clea
1 whiteness appeared IN the sky. the star
s paled their lustre, and the day began t
s break. Soon rudy orange tint sprea
5 over the soil of the pampa, now become fir
5 and compact. In few minutes the disk O
4 the sun appeared above the horizon, and a
g we marched full in front of the god of day
Y we found ourselves in the midst of lumin
: Gus torrent which so dazzled and incom
), NODDED US that TO escape from the new tor
!, ture we doubled ourselves up like hedge
S hogs. This inconvenient posture rendere
US unjust to the claims of the rising sur
, Instead of welcoming his appearance W
s were inclined to wish he had remained GU
y of sight; and it was not until nine o'cloc
t that the sun, now high above the horizon
e permitted us to raise our heads.'
OF course
WE IN THE CARS SUFFERED LITTLE
= of this, though nearly suffocated by th