The Republican journal., 1903-06-04

as good for dyspepsia or debility.
Biliousness is cured by the use of DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
much more than that amount. Ii left
to themselves, to work or play according
their own desires, they would certainly
earn much less.
Next to grape growing the cultivation
of sugar-cane engrosses the people in
the neighborhood of Pisco: and as rain
never falls, though the weather. is some
times quite cold, the necessary irriga-
ton requires great care and labor.
But though the cane is backward in
maturing, it is of coarSer texture con-
tanning more juice than in milder re-
gions and yielding greater amount of
sugar The proprietors of the Canate
haciendas are mostly Englishmen, and
an excellent class of country gentle
men they are, hospitable, upright, and
much kinder to their dependents than
the Peruvans are inclined to be. The
buildings on the estates are uniformly
large and handsome. and description
of one applies equally well to all the
rest. One side of the extensive inner
courtyard is devoted 20 the trapiche, or
sugar mill, the boiling house, refinery
and store-rooms: while the other side
shelters the owners family in long,
lofty and airy apartments, all on the
ground-foor and extremely well fur
nished. Adjoining the house is always
chapel. and a resident priest is main
tanned, whose duty it is to look out for
the spiritual welfare of everybody Oh
the estate from the lord of the manor
to the lowest dependent.
Life in these isolated communities is
by no means disagreeable. Everybody
rises very early, takes bit of bread
and cup of coffee. and goes about his or
her special avocation, the master rid
ing over the fields and the mistress
attending to the house affairs. At ten
o'clock a. N. breakfast is served; and
the meal invariably consists of soup.
eggs. poached or fried and garnished
with slices of fried banana: various
dishes of meat and chocolate. AT four
O'Clock comes dinner-soup, fish, roast,
some vegetables, we'll garnished with
ahi, sauce of red peppers, 'dulcies.
sweet meats, wine and coffee. About
ic If tea broad
and dulces. Attached to the house
is beautiful garden of fruits and
flowers, with stream of water running
through it. from which the lesser irri-
eating bitches are filled. Besides fruit
bearing trees there are hedges OF roses
and thickets of geraniums, paths border
ed by pansies and forget-me-nots, trel-
Uses covered with choicest grapes, and
arbors shaded with passion vines. Ad-
Joining the garden is the galpon, or
negro quarters, a collection OF hutS
ranged around a central square, the
whole surrounded by high wall.
A short railway line connects Pisco
with the cotton regions of Yea, running
southwark through the vine-bearing
plain and across forty miles of desert.
The capital of this department, which
is also called Yea, is the largest town
between Lima and Arequipa. 1t lies
inland about twenty miles, separated
from the sea by the desert and range
of sandy hills Half way between Plsco
and YEA the dusty landscape is beautl-
fed by forest of date palms, covering
an area of several miles, in the midst OF
which stands deserted hacienda named
Villa -Ocuri. The word is of compound
Spanish and Quichua origin and means
"City of Gold" A good many Indian
graves are found in this vicinity, each
of them containing not only its num-
my, but pottery, small idols, splndles
and golden ornaments; and the story
goes that the ghosts of the dead have
driven the usurpers from the estate
which occupies the site of their ancient
city.
Just beyond this enchanted WOOD
is the valuable estate of Nacatones,
which formerly belonged to the Jesuit
Fathers, and was the scene of one OF
the bloodiest battles in the war for Ill
dependence. Then come vineyards and
cotton fields, with hedge rows OF hg
trees, jassamine and roses; and then
the neat little village which we have
dubbed "Yea and Amen" 1t contains
about ten thousand inhabitants and lies
in the midst of lovely plain, five or
six miles from the foot of the snow
topped cordilleras. The adobe houses
are built in the prevailing style OF the
coast, their fat roofs covered with tiles.
Peaceful as it looks, bathed in golden
sunshine and envfroned by fruitful
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