The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-15
To Study Life in Unexplored Ecuador
 Investigators.

Andrew Comstoclx Mckenzie, a young and energetic newspaper writer, well known in New York, Boston and Phila. delphia, has gone to Ecuador at the head President of that republic. MT. Mcken- xie will make a study of the quaint lie, the strange people and the economic con vestigate the great gold fields and rubber forests and general resources or the re- public. His purpose Is to. write an accu- ment will equip him with a strong force, that he may push his way into and ex- plore tho unknown forests about the un- mapped hsadw9tsTs or st,,I Tne syorshippins = the sun and hating the white man, are supposed to be guarding the mines and emerald fields of the Incas in the very shadow of the. highest volcanos in the
 From time to time MT. Mckenzie will send letters and photographs descriptive United States for publication in the press. That these will be accurate and interest ing contributions to the genera! knowi- ways of life and habits of thought and industry, and of the commercial progress of our rich and but little known neignbor, Ecuador may be taken for granted.
 Mir. Mckenzie is peculiarly fitted for this work. He is a rover by natural dis position, and this Is not his first adven-- as a correspondent for an African news paper during the stormy times of Dom Pedro, the last Emperor of that country. and narrowly escaped death at the hands speaks Spanish fiuently and has knack of making himself at home with an agreeable to the natives.
 In Ecuador MT. Mckenzie has an ab- solutely untouched field, one stored with original literary treasures. For centu- ries7 Ecuador. full of romance and mys- tery of primitive life and raw wealth. has been locked up behind the Andes. Until four years ago religious conditions in Ecuador were similar to religious condi- iigious orders ruling despoticallS with thumbscrew, rack and the inquisition. Yet the country is thickly settled, the high piatsauT containing tba number nSS,s0f ot capital of the Incan Empire, where Pizar- TO found such enormous loot of gold sii- yer and precious gems, the source of this treasure being hidden in the land of the head hunting Napo Indians. Four years ago General Altaro drove the Jesuits from power and opened the country to
 On the coast MT. Mckenzie will visit the great cocoa plantations, which al- ready produce 70 per cent. of the world s he will find himself in land of vast pos- abilities in the production of mineral wealth which has just been opened up by havo cc instructed between Guayaquil and Quito. Beyond the Cordilleras he will travel by mule along the massive high way of the Incas built of solid rock, on which ebbs and flows stream of stra agely medieval life-monk and mule teer, grand dame and Indian woman. lines of Indians carrying burdens on their heads and mules ana liamas netslIy s laden. But 1t is In the unexplored noun tains and rubber forests of the Amazon that he may encounter the strangest ad- ventures. for it is his intention to live for time among the Napo head hunters and to study the habits and traditions of the tribe, For this work he will have an armed escort of 100 men, provided by Gen. eral Alfaro, whose guest Mir. Mckenzie will be for time at Quito.