The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-06-11
/ South American Seaport
.,,rNpo. THE ONLY PORT OF
W. ,ruEPN PERU. LANDING
PASSENGERS IN A TUB.

.st hllOol Oh 'ie ""o'o o'' VI
gent america is Mollendo, the one
NA' southern Peru, where wild
p' or always dashing against a
Va, oromontory and an open road
N''! ave-. no sort of protection from
it'" weather. An old sea captain
r.' io.,ribes it when he says: "The
A'' ..l \lpllendo is entered as soon
.i' Shin tuus Cape Horn" 1slay, a
... Lltber down, used to be the
f' and avery much better one than
Z L,. pat by some wire-pulling in
,..~.an Congress on the part of
commercially interested here
... ratroad terminus was made
.r Pronounced Mole-yen-yo).
largo are not uncommon
-1mptlmeS of human life.
.--. cannot land passengers
-...-.. compelled to carry them
. ext port, above or below,
.nI to make their way back
g....tl an more convenient sea-
NJ utrequently what is called
-.. brought into recqulsltlon,
... r hoist people from the
......,. heck INTO the small boat wait
.r... when the pillows are too
.... so Isk going down over the
ladder, as is usual, or in
.. u them up over the cliff
.... -.l near Mollendo, if the surf
.Yr ut approach to the stairs
......... . lie top of the rocky prom
Fila. ... is really barrel with a
.....r de of it and a section of
SD. ..5 ,ut about half way down.
- ........ -uirivance is suspended Sc
rm crane, which hoists it
.U- all, spins it round and
.... tually dumps it down on the
.., .-. .s4. OF as near thereto as it
.-..-r. Init. Generally two persons
81, d. ..te, d woman or child occupy
. -rat and man standing in
...., his back to the opening, he
lear life to the ropes and
...-.. to him. At first sight it
.s-a to see people swung out
....r auar over a raging sea, know
H f.0- smallest accident would
... -.., able death, and the strong
.-.. '.-mbleS in his boots as his
.... rhes. But it is really safer
uI.-.y to be preferred, as | have
.... tmu various moist experiences,
.. ..- Il drenching in the stormy
danger of making a mis-
... slippery stairs or ladder,
... . st Ne seized and mounted the
F. lint the frail boat is tossed
.A the breast of the billoW;
.-. lection the peril of being dash
--. r. meces against it, or of being
.... .arf the great steamer as she
..- M trains at her anchor.
'u not much to be seen in Moll-
principal objects of interest J
s.. -r4t tanks that supply the vii !
81 fresh water, fed from the !
. SIS mile-long iron pipe that !
-u4 the neighborhood of Are B
va thousand feet above sea- :,
.se tanks are large enough to |
-U'c Gent water to last for sew |
.s-~ ould any accident occur to
.. oct. and the latter is capable
eng no less than 100000 gal
Very tWenty-four hours. There
otels at the port, betwee
difficult to decide their rival
-2 9th being bad beyond COM
4r SD. uducrously expensive. a
- If steamship and railway
.e- .zr-rd around two sides of the
ala. in whose center is a small
d. -geen and a pretty fountain.
gan. Vie some pleasant looking cot
.ss upied by the employees and
-amies, besides the usual quota
~ pptres living in huts; also a
RAT lumber of saloons in proportion
..- anty population, dirt unlimit-
-a- aud flies whose names are
.w Set this is the fashionable wa
-Gag mace of Southern Peru, crowded
u4g . lertain season Of every year
IF" H- enc de la creme in search OF
I'd .-saI pleasure.
e uorning l climbed steep hill,
a ,rt2 III dust, every grain holding
active lea, to inspect Mollendo's big
m.a, mother example of how dis
tf" ends enchantment to the view
VI pauhs that compose its wooden
a@ are not overlapping, as clapboards
It lu- ol at the North, and the whole
woi+d with corrugated tin; no laths,
q plaster merely an empty shell, but
# -ytensive, painted white outside,
I'LL $50 pretentious towers, also made
ao0t which add greatly to its i'm
yaAl sppearance when viewed from
@ inside were miles of paper roses
'Hr4 uround the pillars, festooned in
ett, lpon the wall and suspended
Nm Tive bare rafters, marking festivl-
~ Incident to the Month of Mary"
b. Among the usual gaudy images were
ll manta-wearing women ON their
ats, oel waiting her turn at the con-