Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-07-02

lnuinn Nlfi VINO " SelilnE HoIne NJ our
feet. l venture you never saw such
little potatoes before. Thcy are not
bigger than marbles and she offers "
eight for cents. What queer pOta-
toes they arel Dome are Of bright vic.
let color. some are as pink as the toes
OF that baby who Is playing among
them. and some are aa black as tn
feet Of the Indian girl who has them
for sale. Potatoes do not grow large
at the altitude OF La Paz. and. though
there are also large ones In the mar
gets. these come from the warmer lands
lower down.
FROZEN POTATOES WITH BARE
FooT SAUCE.
nut the most curious OF an the p1ta-
toes sold IN ia p1z are those known as
chuno (chouu-y o). Those are sold in
large quanutlr and you may see piles
OF them al every step as You go
through the market. There ia q woman
who has q lafr stock spread out upon
n blanket before her. The pltotoes are
na white as bleached bones. They are
almost as hard. and when you break
the mnpart you nnd tnnm almost 90
tough They are ordinary potatoes,
frozen and dried. after when proccsa u
II said they can be kept for year
without spelling. The method of
preparation iH to soak them lu wator
and allow them 90 freeze night after
night until they. become SOFT Then the
skins are rubbed OF bv tfendIng upon
them with the bare feet. and the pota-
toes are thoroughly dried ln the open
air. After drying they are ne white
as snow and ar hard as stones. such
POTATOES form one ~ the chief foods ~
the Boiivians. They are staple article
among the Indians 81 the Andeun high
lands. They have 60 Zoe soaked Tor
three or four days before they can be
- NHI naa
OF stow. ! have tasted thcm several
times. All the life of the potato seems
tn me to have been taken out oi thrm.
and I ind them inalpld and by no
means apetiziuE. Perhaps I would be
able TO eat them n / ala not ao fire.
quently see the dirty bare feet Of the
Indians with which they are sauccd. To-
addition to the above potatoes. ila-
llia has number o. varieties which
we do not have. II has hlttcr pOtn-
toes o IA dirty yellow color. which VIII
grow on the highest plateau. II has
tubors which look like potatoes. but
which have an acid taste and which
must be- exposed 20 the sun before
cooking, and OthorH which look Ike
dahiia roots ana which taste rotncwhat
like turnlps
THE INDIAN CORN OF BOLIVIA.
/ am much interested also In the In
dian corn which 1 Ind here. There are
many species OF maizv here which We
never see In North America. Bolivia
has varieties Of corn grown by oui
flrmcra Some kinds ARE ~ bright
yellow color. every grain beng AZ big
~ my thumb NATL This corn. whom
bit into u. crumbigd up almost Ike
Hour and I can see that 10 can with =
eight hruidng bc turned into meal
Another variety ia white. ana thirl
IL OF mulberry color, being called
0 - Id. HOO H|HH
nlury kcrnel. and / nm. told mat u ln
used IN making aud cIorlng liquor
I The most Of these varieties Of corn are
I grown In the Nungua country. 10 the
| east AMI far lower down than Ia Pas
[ The corn there grows from ten O.
/ twelve feet In height. II seems 10 me
/ the varieties might grow well In tn
] United states. and ! have Forwarded
I samples 90 our secretary Of agriculture,
I with Wow " testing the matter An
/ other plant. ~ which ! have already
| spoken ~ growing here, Ia the quinua
| or quinoa pronounced kccn-wnm. IL
| might be- grown Al l.eadNllle on on some
/ parts OF tn Rocky Mountain plateau.
| You src II almost everywhere on these
l AnlUnn highlands. II ~ c1rcfuily cul.
I tvAto and H. grains when thrcahcd
] out are Of the aise nf mustard seeds.
They are sweet 60 the taste and make
and excellent muFh whom cooked,
THE fltllAH VI AiAis AsNtisfs
II seems curious 10 fud ~ sorts ~
fine fruits away up here on the f.o9i 81
tho world. There are fruit pcddlera
/ on nnnr'y every square ~ la iag. tnf
the market II Allied with nnc varieties
OF qulnccr, penrr. oranges ana plne-
apples There are sweet ana sour lem
ons and there are white grape. each
berry OF which ~ the size 81 a damnOr
plum. Their arr cllngatone peaches 90
/ ilg as the white Heath, and thcrg are
ngs aud other fruits which We do not
have. one peculiar article looks Ike q
mammoth green pea pod. II w known
"a the "pfcar." When opened u shows
big black beans lncaHed In pulp which
looks like the nneyt % white spun SILK
You cat tho pulp. and whgn cold ~ tlatf
10 you like q finely Favored tee cream
These fruits come from forty 20 HlNN
miles away from the eastern Slopes OF
the Andes, perhaps r. mile lower down
than Ia paa. within nifty TO n hundred
miles OF here you can get into troplca
BOLIVIA, and by going that distance cal
have all ~ the climates from trorlca
heat or friFld cold The snow mover
melts on lllimanl, The climate here u
about that uf Paris. and In the Nungll
and the iionl regions not Tar away tn
plncipplca and the palm trees grow
There are Wild oranges and Wild cot
ton trees, There are coffee plantations
and In the forests the Indians are ga
thoring rubber O. h. shipped down tn
! Amazon 10 Para, whence some n 4
perhnpa will 80 % the United states I,
be used In your bicycle tires
FRANK q. CARPENTER
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