The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-24

Carabaya district Of Peru. They were the
hardest booking Yankees | have seen and
their story was harder than their looks
They had attempted to live OF the country
and had had little more than cornmeai
mush for three months. Some Of ti5e time
they were almost starving notwithstanding
the fac. that they had plenty OF money
with them. For weeks they had TO walk
through the rain and sleep az night With
out = IKE in rude Indian huts where At
times they were only admitted because
they forced their way in. There is abso-
Iutely no chance for man 10 make his
expresses as he goes along. and as for try
ing 10 wash enough gold out OF the streams
10 support him, this is ar inpossib:Iity, for
the surface warnings and. IN fact. all gold
bearing gravels tina: could be easily gotten
at have been worked over and over by the
Indians, first III the days o{ the Incas. later
or when they were under their Spanish
taskmaSters, and since then from year %
year for themselves. The gold regions On
the eastern sides OF the Andes are in many
cases nalarious. and those about here are
so high that many cannot stand the rara-
fled air ard have soroche. No American
can work here as he can al home, and
most of those who attempt 20 DO so soon
give it up. A TO the roughness of travel
here and in ;he Rockies there is no con-
parison. The passes of the Andes are
over the ridges OF the mountains rather
imam ktifnuSH k14iese. anu passes OF E1rfJ
and 1I.0c0 feet are common. Mr.. Bellows
told me- he crossed the mountains In one
place a 1900 feet. and that when he got
10 the top the other side seemed straight
down. and his trip from there was like
climbing down the side OF a wall Some
OF the roads over the mountains are by
a series OF steps and mules are trained TO
climb and jump Up from step to step. In
some places the mules viii 81: down upon
their hind legs and slide down the mount
aims, and you are often In such A situa-
ton that II yoJ or your mule makes a
misstep you are LOST
Troubles of south American Miner.
Let as look AZ what It viii cost the or
binary American 10 come here 20 mine.
We Will suppose that his purse IS lean and
that he travels In the cheapest way. II
he goes by steerage from New York 70
Panama {: VIII cost him go ana he VIII
need So mare far his Steeragc passage 10
MnNen3o Il Will cost his So for actual
expenses from NoiIecio 20 L. P9z. and
- far nothing whatever has been allowed
foT extras A La paz h must outfit ana
here everything Is high. A sack OF -four
VIII cost BIN 81. He wII ind TO baking
powder and no bacon. and he will have 10
stock W with such canned goods as he
can nnd at the hghes; prices The chances
ara that he VIII decide 70 live Of of the
country. and that his stomach vii be turn
81 upside down as soon as ne gets outside
% the settled regions What ne VII have
20 eat K he can buy il VII, be choiora
This IL a sheep. sp'i, and dried whole in
the SUI He packs this on his mule or
burro and & forms his staple food Il
5 exposed 70 the rain and then becomes
soft \ terrible stencil arises from r. and
i looks like putr.d meat. az il really j.
Another food that Il STAPLE is cAuno. or
frozen potatoes fried. These are much
Gked by the Indians bat are not rei!shed
~ foreigners Outside OF these TWO ART
cles you can buy nothing on the road A.
:he Indian villages YOU may sometimes he
HE n get vegetables. but no meats
Came * wy scarce. and there X little
wood f3r cooking except IN the regions OF
The eastern slopes n the mountains There
< Absolutely no fuel for warmth II whs.
aEe some - the coolest % climates II
yoU carry an q. stove you Will have e
pack along keFosiaa f3r =. ana ;hLs VII
COS; you for me Peruvian variety more
than s. per gallon. Manv people cannot
realize thar &, is cold II Soufh America I
am ar5nc two suits of undarctothtng a:
rs moment. aud NY feet are Tn "A FUR
foot warmer iks taae We sometimes use
Nhe0 oui sls,eharg. I am only li:tle over
z. $50 feet above the "a III a hotel agn, II
s4"-d~ie! br.ck. Many of thA mining r.
E3ors ara - 80 and more fee, above The
sea there are &c houses whatever. and ~
CERTAIN seasons tne winds of the Andes are
damp cola s0d CONCENTRATING
TIE rany season is serious tire for re
American p-cspecto-- The grass o. these
high panpas IS - . s3f5. stsoaEy nature.
L HalSS wateT. 50 t5at ecuE over {. -
Ike Va king 90 NJ sponge and ~ bocts
rsr ken year FEET 4rv Ruhher ~ra~kF
aH4 p@els AMEN ex1ae~ed - IL II tae gols
regions O. ere Beni river. WHERE = Is
warmer. tie PANS az heavier AMI he
vegetation = - dense ths, ~ ;irses yoa
have 20 cat &yur wsy through with ma
caeta*- SER Zines e = Impossible - make
I1iofe tnaC frsa or three" ETsles Tag Most
e - steevs sflis however. can ~ mn
-fa..v modified e nct removed z one hsx
plenty ~ money. att for s8ch t1e opuor-
.ua-,tes are. o=.Ieye. worthy - serious
srFes. "a s3of..
FRANK g. CARPENTER
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