Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-25

w in.H Ni"lN Nuhu 4lNNlNNN worth o.
Imports came into Bolivia by way of
Lake r'iiieaca. and more than $4,000,
worth ~ Bolivian goods were shipped
out There are now steamers once
Wclk from Pune tn Chililayu and &C..
turn and ncarly an pnsaeurora ana
freight 60 and from Ia puz which IL.
You know. the biggest city and the
commercial capital gf Bolivia. 80 over
ms route. / am now ON my way 90
IL paz. The city g. about forty nva
miles, or almost q days ride by stage.
from hero. ana ull baggage. freight
ana IAHHDnErrn are carried there bs
horses or mules. The United State,
mlll FOR Bolivia ig brought across Lake
Tiiic1ca and carried. with other Tor.
cign mall. ON "a wagon to In paz I
tried tn hrihv the mail carrier a. take
me- with him today. but the weight oi
the m1ll bags was COO pounds, nud h.
t1id that this was ull his eight horse
team could haul IN tho gtliop. and that
must wait Tor the rtlrc ~ tomorrow.
CARRIED OVER THE MOUNTAINS
on MEMS BACKS.
The shin IN which I crossed Lake
Tiiicnca Is the largest and finest of the
neyt There uro three other steamers
belonging 90 the Peruvian corporation
or English syndicate which mas ihc
monopoly ~ the trnnlc, and IN addition
they have llitlr steamers which bring
copper. silver and Tin up tho Dcaar-
uadrtn river from the rich mininr re-
rIun 81 Orurl Tho Tiucaca steamer
line was founded by the Peruvian py-
fcnmrnt ns part ~ ltH transportation
system, which, nH ] have said before
was the most expensive over planned
or built Tho first steamers cost moro
thnn their weight In silver They were
made In England and shipped tp tn
Peruvian coast and thence carried uu
the backs NJ men ana mules over tho
Andes ~ was ton years after the nhipH
were landed on the conai before they
got 90 The lakes. and tn English onrl-
necra drew silaricH during the delay
while hussinr the fob one OF tn
larger ships was nftprwnrd cut iu two
and section % huh nfiy foot long
inserted. This work was done by the
ralllroad shopa a. Arcqulpn. and The
SHIP ru lonrthrnrd lH used on The lake
today The smaller steamers ply 90 and
from from the lcHrrr ports Thoy visit
most ~ the towns upon The coast and
carry frpirht ma puFrcnFor 10 the
numerous Islands.
THE SACRED ISLES or LAKE TIT
tCACA.
Lake Titlcac "a has many beautiful
islands. The most " thJm mr., rocky.
ragged mountain peaks. which have
their bodies under the water and n
thin coating nf Hull on the rocks above
n. Eight ~ the Islands are inhabited.
and these are cultivated 10 the very
tops 81 the mountains. n the Uusrd
states could De- as carefully titled az
the parts 81 Peru through which 1
have Travelled. where every available
bit ~ land On used. 10 would. I believe,
furnish enough food Tor ull ~ the pcu-
pie or the world ana leave enough
grain lcft 60 slut tho Chicago markets
a HtWN
of soil as biz aH bed quit are SUR
rounded with stones and carefully
tined. Bits N land between tho rocks
arr green with rcauiy crops ~ p1tn-
toes, barley and qulu0a. which are
about the only things that viii grow az
this altitude, and you sgc people work.
Ing ON the Sides 10 hills whore they
almost have 10 hold on with one hand
while hry use tho rude little hoes ~
this part ~ tho world with the other,
This Truhh.nT fnr r. bare existence guoH
ON over the greater part NJ the pln-
tonu IN which Lave Tlticnca lies II
N the plateau which formed tho chlcf
center ~ the Inca civilization which
prevailed horr whom the Spanllrds
came. Lake Tiile1e1 was tho crntur ~
civilization generations older than that
uf tho inDna. and upon ltH shores Htlll
stand ruins sl Old that the lnclH could
not tell the fp1ulHria anything about
them, ana only said that the mighty
monuments Wrro made by u race of
giants who lived about this lake be-
fore tho sun appeared In The heavens.
These ruins are those which llc near
the little town nfTtHhuhn1cnT They cover
an Arrl ~ about three miles and con-
alst ~ the remains ~ massive walls,
tprrnrrd mounds and the ruins 81 n
great rilnce which 10 sometimes called
the temple. This building covered
about four acres. ana u was made 81
great blocks ~ black stone, each thirty
luthnH thick. The stones like those ~
the famed buildings ~ ruzrn, were
fitted together without mortar ana
were 80 carefully laid Tint Il was I'M
possible 20 insert a knife blade be-
tween ihom From these ruins some ~
the most curious archaeological relies
have been tnkcn. many ~ the most vnl-
unhla having been secured by Prof,
Ad0ifr. nand,llrr. who Il spending bis
no M this region ms the collector for
the New York Museum.
Professor Bundollcr has made many
new discoveries and investigations
about Lake Titlcnca and he r. Inclined
tn believe that the most OF what has
been puhllFhd about some parts NJ THIS
region a. almost pure nrtion. He has
speut months upon Tlilcncn ISLAND,
which some authorities olalm was tho
Gaplgn ~ Edhd ~ the Inca mythology
I've FIRST uVDd uuun earth and from
which thuy started out o. found Cutcp
ana build uu tho race, according tn this
theory our nr7t pnrenin wsre The
chUiran m tho nun. Thfro wnro two
OF Thorn. Nance Clp1c nrd Mama oolln,
MA Flatsr.wife on this account, 20
g1vs gouler. who " one M tho author
iiiaH ou Lake Titlracn, tho lurlH cun-
rllared thIF ltllD and CfpfcIully Tlt'CAc1
island holy They built thnlr tHm-
pleg hpre hld wonderful palaces. and
eycn hrlurht r0ll tn The island from
The mainland IN order that corn mlrht
bo grown uuHu the island, This corn
so snyH ono M tho oll chronlolers, who
Professor lnrinlIUr thinks had very
lively Imagination, was considered 90
sacred that when a grain of IN was put
IN one NJ mo pubic houses 10
mnctlnod nnl prrcrvcd an other
rrains. and l' WAS ALEC said That n
man who cnuld have 49, much NJ one
grain OF Tltl0Ir1 Island corn ln MS
ainrDhousc, would noi lack TOR tool
during ME lifetime ThHr arc today
many ruins nu TtIrlcl island, and the
worry rock on which Nance Clptc and
hls rlstor-wIfe stepped whom they first
landed from tho Fuu is shown. This
rock. saya tho rlmp chrnnlnler, was
once plated with FOLD and Kent cow
erod with veil TIM Inhabitants or
Indians. who are said 100 hr descendants
on IA. trihoa who War1 an numerous
about Lake Tltlcncl years ago. Thry
1.-Two IN little huts Of mud nr stone
matched with straw and show no 'iTnl
~ haylng had porWeouf trmplcs nr inc
moro cXtOnslyO civilization which ihpN
noasessod whom the lnrlR Wero their