Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-18
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western horizon into bed OF crimson
and gold with fan-shaped decorations
In greenlsh- blue primrose and anne
tbyst-the cloud-curtains opposite were
suddenly swept aside as by Invisible
hands disclosing mountains rising
above mountains In ever ascending
scale, 10 tho extreme summit of the
great white cone clear cut against the
sky The snow-whte splre flushed rosy
red for q moment. rejecting the blaze
OF glory In The west and then the cloud
curtains came together again and no
sign OF O mountain was visible.
1t was the singular Wilderness of this
peak that gave the island KS name
Teneriffe, meaning white woman" In
the Guonche language Modern Span
lards call the tip Of It's cone "PIco de
Freyed'--a corruption of the aboriginal
name, which signihed Mouth Of Hell.'
The few adventurous persons who have
scaled that colossal chimney and looked
down INTO lts depths acknowledge the
appropriateness Of the Gaunche title.
Tenerlffe IL the largest Of the seven
Canary Islands, and Santa Cruz IL It's
most important port where nine tenths
Of the business OF the archipelago Is
now transacted. Time was when the
bay OF OrataV0, around on the other
side Of the island was the fayorlte
shipping place; but the great volcanic
eruption Of 1906 filled It up with lava.
The whole coast of this triangular
shaped island presents a succession Of
rocky cliffs pierced by deep and mar
row rayines, and 50 great Is the depth
Of water that In many places where
the land seems to fall away In sheer
preclpices to the ocean floor the long
est line has failed to find soundings
within n stones throw Of the shore
Geologlcally speaking. the Canaries--
whose easternmost point Is within sixty
miles Of Morocc0-~are the last remains
on this side Of the ocean Of the tradl-
tlonal Atlantls-the sunken continent
which once connected the eastern and
western hemisphere, according to the
neurological lore Of all the maritime
nations Of Europe. on the old maps
dawn by Venetian navigators, Atlantis
began at the northwest corner OF Afrl-
ca, and extended dlagonally across the
ocean to Yucatan Of course including
the West Indies, which. like these ISL
ands were merely very high mountains
on the mainland whose tops remained
uncovered even In siX-mlle depth of
water You remember that Plato got
his information about the submerged
continent from Scion, and later author
tiles assert that the great disaster OF
the lost Atlantis gave rise TO the story
Of the flood, as recorded in theBibleand
TO similar conditions that prevail, with
but slight variations, among all nations
and rellglons-eyen the japanese, the
meas Of Peru, the Aztecs of Mexico
and the Alaskans Of our own northwest.
Researches OF scientists In recent years
have tended to establish rather than
disprove. the theory Of the sunken con-
tinent, Not least among alleged proofs
Is the discovery of broad elevated
plateau stretching from hemisphere to
hemisphere across the bottom OF the
Atlantic with mountain peaks and
ranges here and there tsome OF which
are now inhabited islands, with the
general trend and contour ascrlbed 10
the submerged world.
This harbor OF Santa Cruz Is formed
by two rocky arms stretched outward
from the mountains, half-enclosng a
turbulent roadgtead, into which the
trade-wind send long heavy sWells,
which IN calmest weather keep vessels
rocking and tossing with greater yio-
lence than Is often experienced In a
storm at sea- Mariners IN these wa
ters llud their best protection In the
regularity Of the trade winds, which
enable the sophisticated to accurately
calculate the coming weather, accord
ing to the season, and TO make for the
open sea I'M time to avoid being dashed
against the cliffs of the so-called har-
Dor by pillows rolling In from OUT
side.
This capital city and commercial port
OF the Canary group, which rejolces
under the modest title Of Santa Cruz dc
Tenerlife. literally Holy Cross of the
White Woman'), has a population APP
pIoximatlng twenty thousand--mostly
spanialds, with a liberal sprlnkling Of
other nationalitles. 1t is regularly laid
out Oh q gradual slope up the hillside