New-York tribune., 1907-11-17

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In other words, that forty or fifty steers
crowd along a fve-foot trail simultz.
Whenever they tried this manpuvre W
see a lot OF little red balls go boundh.
the mountainside out OF sight. OrdinarE
would have been total losses, but L.
owing to the sOftness Of the newly faIls,
most OF the animals survived the shS
were able to continue on their way.
At short intervals on each side Of Il
nit, along the winter trail over the
have been erected stone shelter houses
use Of those who might be CauEht out in
or for other reasons need 10 stop an
Occasionally wood and fuel are 10 be :
them-both are regularly supplied by Ii
ernments Of Argentina and Chill for Il
pose-but these are usually consumed
as put in by wayfarers or by the su.d
packers, Who construe chilled fingers nt
need as an excuse for getting free 70
fuel.
1here is always a strong and bite,
wind drawing over the summit OF the Dc
once the excitement of the cattle dri
over my companion and I found o.
ready to defer further observations u
had warmed I'D and breakfasted. To Z
we sought the interior of one Of tht
houses and lighted, or rather tried to liz
alcohol lamp. Alcohol is an uncertain
however taken. applied or employed, bu
so much so as when used in anything
specially constructed lamp at q high a
Anywhere above 10000 feet you need a
deposit vault to light il in, and even aft
apparently well started il has . dis:
habit of getting the sputters and soing
no reason at all. By nursing IL like
baby inside your coat and keeping the c
away from it you may sometimes make
long enough to boil water, but even Il
water, on account of the altitude. is har
enough to melt butter,
My friend nurSed the lamp under a
water with an egg broken il
twenty minutes without producing d S.
grateful color in the egg's transparent
Then 1 nursed it for twenty minutes. or
started 10 do so. After about ten mi
must have let a spoonful of colo air
FOR the thing got the sputters and blew
course l absorbed all the water. which
mere incidental 10 the fact that l also
up most of the egg as well. II the lart
been only half as much cooked as the
given il would have warranted there
have been some chance for salvage Cpe-
In its still liquid state il was Il total loss
that we threw the lamp out 10 the mus
.I-f.,
When We went out the valley below "
in heavy shadow, yet so clear was the {
could see without our glasses the mOvem
the packers and passengers as they
about making their preparations for
They soon began 10 straggIe out for the E
md before long resolved themselves /
single, waverinS black line that began
but steadily To mount the zigzaSs tOWa
There was one popularity which puz-
completely for a while This was a eOn'
changing body of riders who appeared Z
pressing in upon-and revolving around
he trail was wide enough to permit it-a
unchanging central unit. This persoT|
struck US as being most unreasonable' /
nothing Of the danger involved in it, vi
followed the mysterious swarm with cur q
'or fully five minutes, unable to make R1
tail of it. when my companions quick J,
lions suddenly OWNED the reason OF ta'I
lomenOn. la aCtriz EspanOla," he eA''
''the gentlemen of the pa.
paying court to her" And, sure enough \
1 Spanish actress, who. as we learned
rom Cuevas with both her saddle bags .
With champagne bottles.
Knowing that the main party wou'a
IDLY care TO spend little time for oose'