Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-02

mate is really delightful, there being
very little or no rainfall, and only
slight changes in the temperature
the year round.
We remained in port three or four
days, this giving us ample time to
visit Lima, the capital, only seven
miles distant. The city claims pop
ulation of 10000, and shows more
signs Of progress, with her 80 miles
of electric street railway, than any
city l have seen in South America.
She is Justly proud of what she
claims to be the first institution of
learning built on the Western hemi-
sphere-the University Of San Mar
cos. She also boasts Of other his
toric institutions, yet with all Of her
hoasted institutions she is 100 years
behind the civilized world. 1t is in
one Of the old cathedrals here that
the bones of PiaZZaro, the Spanish
priest-soldier who took by conquest
all the west coast from the Incas
about the time Cortez was taking
Mexico, are to be seen.
1t was at Lima we witnessed our
first bull fight, and l think it was
my last, for don't care for the sport,
If it may be styled as such. We saw
SSNSh DullS anu TWO HoIScS hllleu.
After thoroughly exciting the bull
with red flags. ponchas, ETC., they
then ipfuriate him still the more by
puncturing his hide with banderillas,
which are left hanging there. Each
time this Is done the multitude goes
wild with applause, throwing their
hats, canes, ETC., into the ring. The
only time | felt like applauding was
when bull made charge on a plea
dore and knocked him off Of his
horse. About six Of us Americans
were together when this happened
and we raised from our seats and
gave a good North American yell.
Every one around us looked at us in
utter amaZement, but little did we
care. l was told that some time ago
they had a bull which killed seven
men before che bit the dust" l
remarked that he should have been
saved, as more Of his kind are need
ed to put a stop to the practice. At
ter the bull Is thoroughly worried
out, the matador walks directly in
front of him, and puts an end to him
by piercing him between the shold-
ers with a sword. But the most hor-
rible thing connected with the bull
ring is the manner in which the
horses are treated, being brought in
blindfolded. Some one Of the mata-
dors will shake a red flag at the bull
and dart behind horse. OF course
the bull charges on the horse, and
saw great holes torn open in their
abdomens, their intestines rolling
out and trailing in the dust Of the
arena. The whole thing was most
horrible to behold.
When we returned to Callao three
Nf hi hnI p,..tt hosy
part of the fleet which had come
through the Straits of Magellan, and
l wish to say that of ali scenes of
land or sea, which it has been my
privilege Of viewing since leaving
home, none was half so beautiful to
me as the flag Of my country, as it
floated from the maSts of those war
dogs in the port Of foreign country.
Again we embark and start on our
southern journey. calling at several
uninteresting smaller ports-uninter-
esting except in the manner they
loaded their cargoes on the ship.
None of them has any harbor or
docks. Consequently our steamer
would anchor about a mile out from
shore, and they would come rowing
their cargoes out to us in boats,
which are perfect counterparts in
every ieSpeCI VI INC olu 1ell ueetS,
described to us in the histories Of
ancient Rome. Rather interesting
at the same time cruel-was the
manner in which they loaded cattle.
They would throw rope around the
horns; this was fastened to a der
rick, the engine started, and they
were literally lifted into the ship by
their horns.
Leaving the steamer at MoilendO
taking the Peruvian Southern Rail-
way, which conveyed us a cross the
desert, very desolate, barren and
uninteresting region, except for the
sand crescents. These were perfect
crescents of sand, varying in size,
some OF them being three to four
hundred feet in length on the con-
cave side, formed by the shifting of