The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-21

towels around thcir hands ani nccEs.
while women Of the higher clarc, Who's
whole ambition - to ka white, and
who have liquid preparation 70 sme.r
frequently or thIir faces 20 make them
so temporarily. have also. ~ addition -
the aforementioned precautions 10
sunburn, g white pHsie "a.eA th5T
smear th,cEly on cheiT laccs wAcn trav-
cling N ,he orcr an.
Active Volcanoes 81 Vtcv.
After leaving Mataga:pa it ,,as a
steady decent - tag axe coGct. .t.Is
the wild dIcIss were ia abundance, aEl
the cones o.. several artivr TJ.,Guo,@
were m PLATA Y'yW a tGga ieceut.y
embedded by Tie i.Ta ;roA ono .. t-ao"
explosive mountains was reached, aad
II was not pas3eu Tlt12nt sJdGt r
and the hope tnlt the Smou'dcring mon
ster might not break out - = reW-r
| and nearer place The sol! for nj!
around these volcanic districts . cg.A.
posed chiefly ct volcanic ash, anG in
some places one could sce IN tGc ioriM7:
tIon OF the rock The distinct layers OF
cooled lava from different cutbnYsts.
An earthquake vas not such fre9Esot
/ occurrence az ono would imagine, bG5
/, often one woul1 be awakened with Il
| terrified start at night because o q
long. violent shaking, but when you
| discovered that 1t was only saucE
| pig scratching his back on the bot toM
| ot your hammock Won IIlsJ rolled over
disgustediy and dismissed earthquakes
| from Your mind,
IL was necessary at cne time 10 cross
a river in boat and coIrpel the ami.
! mails to swim across, while at another
time the whole caravan crossed Il
! lake in n boat the likes Of which would
rock itself TO death in a bath tub if
! the water. Tippled, but it was manned
by an American captain. who had been
| twenty.six years in Central America
! and couldn't speak Spanish even thon
/ A squall came up and all the packs
I were a iumbled mess Of wet food,
mixed with wet clothing, and the decks
were so slippery that it was most
! difficult matter TO get the animals off
without any broken legs.
Canned goods had now run out, and
for days il was sometimes impossible to
! obtain any more food than few tor
/ tillas (cQrn cakes and coffee. The
members of the party discovered that
| they had all been bitten by everything
! from q hornet TO a mule, and one be
/ came so calloused that the mere sting of
a sugar bee was hardly noticed any
| more than a mosquito bite. But the
! journey was drawing TO close and
nothing mattered now-not even when
! Just within sight of Mapagua the last
! hopes of dry change of clothing were
blasted when one of the natives ex-
citedly announced that two pack mules
! had Just fallen into the river The
! lower native has no great love for the
| American, and it seems TO the latter
! that il is always with certain degree
! of malicious pleasure that native in
I forms the ''aulbre Americana that q
| mule has just broken leg, pack
! lost-ln fact, any news that is really
. bad enough.
| So after a month s constant travel
/ ing Managua wes reached-a fair hotel,
/ good eating. new clothes and mail from
/ homc-almost real civilization,
! Accounts Of the trip were in all the
/ daily papers. and few days later. IN
/ an interview with President zelaya,
he complimeuted the travellers on their
I trip, and said as he greeted them
q" You have seen more Of my country
than [ have mYself -