Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-13

best way 70 market Il over its WATER
ways, through rs territory 10 the At.
lantic Cocst But Peru has plan TO
get In far ahead OF them all ana build
railroad that shall tap the rich c0un.
Try and carry its products 10 the Pa
cilic coast over the mountains.
To ascertain the best route, that ma
ton commissioned a French engineer,
Albert de Lautreppe Of Paris, 10 ex-
plore the country and find a road, lie
led an expedition and reported that
the plan was feasible.
Now he has arrived In Now York
with remarkable news. He found i'm
mense rivers SPAWNED by wonderful
bridges made OF basket work by the
natives. More remarkable than all he
found tribes Of cannibal Indians. whose
boast was that they never had allow
ed white men TO pass through their
country, by diplomacy and generous
presents he managed to win, II not
their friendship, az least sufferance, ana
he reached his objective point after
many dangers, but without being
harmed
His first experience Of the savage
was after passing Mount Camanu, ef-
ter many days OF vOyaging along the
camp was alarmed by the cry. "Chun-
Ghost and loSIns out OF his tent he
saw tall straight men peering at
them from the woods. They had moth
er Of pearl disks in their nostris and
gaudy feathers stuck through holes in
their lips and cheeks Some Of them
had Sits IN their upper lips, through
which they would thrust their tongues
frequently.
They were armed with bows and ar
rows, and after de Lautreppe had won
their confidence he went hunting with
them and saw them drive their arrows
dean through atRpir Notwithstanding
the animals thick, tough hide, The
explorer says thai they could fight men
In armor so hard do they shoot with
their simple arms,
lie found them entirely without ele-
mcnts Of humanity. They leave their
sick and wounded without attt mpting
to help them They let their dead lie
where they expire. They do not even
try to help each other when accidents
befall meTnbers Of hunting parties The
Chunchos openly and without the least
apparent thought OF it's horror des-
crbed to him how they had killed
band of white men in a rubber camp
and eaten them I'm celebration Of the
victory.
From the land Of the Chunchos the
expedition passed into the country Of a
still worse tribe. the Huachaparis, OF
whom even the Chunchos were afraid.
For days the explorers We're conscious
that they We're surrounded by hum
dreds, II not thousands of the sayages,
but thev could see none. and only the
. H. fsarf e., 10
dergroWth gave them warning of thu
presence of their invisible watchers,
But al last DE Lautreppe managed to
get into communication with them
and convince them that he had come
with no inimica purpose.
He describes them as more horrible
and ferocous IN appearance and habit
than one car possibly imagine. They
were great men. few being less than
six feet high. They were painted with
bright red oolors, their faces belns
streaked Enthusiastically. They TOO had
their features pierced for feather orna.
mentations.
De luutreppe says that he cannot
tell why they permitted his party to
cross tneir territory alive. "The Chun-
chos." he SAYS, told us that they had
massacfed three white men In Cara.
baya lust before we arrived. Just why
we escaped trouble | cannot explain.
as they were entirely fearless. and our
| firearms caused them neither surnrise
nor alarm. Somehow, we had the luck
to effect a peace which neither OF us
| broke II may be that they were con-
WINGED that We were not after their
women. which seems to be great
cause Of tribal wars there, Most tribes
are shore of women, and, therefore.
they raid each other frequently"
An the tribes that he found exist
solely by hunting and rove over great
extents Of territory. DE Lautreppe saws
that the country throughout shows
evidences Of great wealth In gold and
that Peru can open II by building less
than 400 miles of railroad. part OF
which. indeed. Is already under con-
structim. kansas City Star.