Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17
THRILLS ENCOUNTERED WHILE CLIMBING k1EXICO'S
BIG VOLCANO by ELIZABETH r. CANNON

allowed these TO subside while dawdlcd
our damp preparations for departure.
Riding the animals was now impossbility and
the "f onv Sa% a o %
q hollow log filled with the water, Lower
Ing our lips 10 its shimmerls SURFACE, we drank long
draughts cowboy fashion. We above the
from raining on ' u.s. 1o mist "i fd barrams ssF an" u1
sofened precipces where would have sickeneh
parted ana we beheld enhancing glimsss OF car
an eastern beauty Which are all the more fascnatin
when half concealed we marvced when the fes-
We abandoned our burros at the timber line ana
started across the lava beds foot. food was
in pail, for there is nothing the lava beds
round Il tiny yellow daisy with frosted looking leaves
but 1t was more rare than the cdelwess of Switzer-
over hill and down dale we racd leaving foot
prints at every step When we got to the place where
burden. for Popo is 1850 above of the
The air was IKE champagne and went to our heads;
ana we had far away feeling that some where
Fhey say tin on Clear ax vow on can look from
ocean 10 ocean from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific. from
this rim OF the continent" sighed E. while
we cannot even see the peak we are climbing"
In direct REPUTATION the sun appeared exposing to
our emGh9 an SaIe tho sno" white cone that
through long marrow valley and emerged at
snow line, when our guides who had been examining
tering, Nal homhres." tMcnn men in the
inins.9 W. turned in repidation and beheld two
perlnps they are fellow tourists remarked Mrs.
began putting nor ypiuablos in her boots in any
;h. ing but ut i. re@ssu yat m, manner tI
wasted one of the five shots in our pistol TO see II
o sa o FG S We hin some os sr S
Women ana they let US 60 Are they Mexicans
call for different tactics.
HOSTILE STRANGERS.
"Mexcans" laconcaiy. AS we were able to see for
running swiftly along ledge to ntereept s our W ad
vance, We behed shouetted against the gray sky
short zarapes that tho cold wind Tapped nercl!essly
against their lean bare limbs.
hind immense bouldsrs ana evoled their guns at
Eo,llownE the ejaeulation Of phl!pe we wheeled
suddenly and Dehcld in tho valley below encrcling
US on a sides q dozen armed men
brilliant idea. These men above escaped Grim
innls and those balow the guards after them
and they are using US for cover" wound up hyser-
,n6s se men He%w had now n in on whereupop
th,ir guns in ! semsmanly manner and descended
The strangers we're the mountain police CONF -
warn Us TINT there were robbers in tho mountains
sn ' we haa come to ga4e into the burning crater
anL hGd mimi for ,ohogSan slide besides, and we
Of cattle and said that cattle thieves Just passed
If We went on would be returning across the lava
beds after dark and they would not be responsible
IN VAN we pleaded ana as their instructions
That night in the real where were to mass
our second horrible night on the mountain We de-
bated whether we should risk IRE for fear its
smoke should attract those same robbers from whom
we had ned. When the gruesome story of a noun
tain lion who got n boy short time before was
told, and the moral pointed that It was bcca,so
he didn't hav" fire, decided brave the rot-
hers. WI hgtlt fire 50 immense that We nearly
SLEEP was npogaIhle ana rs we sat in the f,ji
glare of the blaze telling urd stories we renoe,st
what splendid targets we wpuld make for suns
shndowy iEu"ci that Watched N# from across tH
borrRncp, Whothtr they wcrc friend or foe we never
had occasion to find oat; and after con OF timc
came the dawn.