The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14
ny FRANK C. CARPENTER.

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TT AXE q seat on the aeropiane Of
your imagination and point its
J. nose toward the sky. Pull the
lever and guide Yourself straight up
ward until YOU are more than TWO
and hnlf miles above the level of
tho sea. Then fly about 1000 miles
straight to the south. Cross the Gulf
of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
twist Your way In and out among the
;,i..h vcaks Of the Andes, through CO.
,o,nbIa. Ecuador and Peru. then descend
1ust 500 feet, and YOU arc at Guaqut.
T3olfy-ia on the shores of Lake Titicaca,
the highest body of water that Is now
irlvcrseG 10y Il steamer. You are
turtle, up in the air than the top OF
lIlitiyarla, Japan. You are more thar
twice as high as Mount Washington.
and less than 1900 feet below the top
OF Pixies Peak. You arc on the shore'
ri nn inland sea, almost hnlf as big rs
Lake Erie, and in plain sight OF
some OF which are nearer TO heaven
than any point on the North American
Continent Much OF the high plateau
that borders the two sides of tho lake
IS 5000 feet above sea level, and the
lake Itself Is more than l2.50o. Mount
Sorati. Mt one end of the ragged wall
OF glaciers in front OF you. is more
than $4,000 feet high: and the glaciers
on Mount Iilimani arc so tall and so
5. cop they nave never been climbed.
lake / seem 10 be on the very roof
Of the world, and as I ride over the
waters. feel as though, II climbed
zap their shores. would drop of into
space.
came 10 Lake Titicaca from Cuzco.
riding for 200 miles on the railroad
through the high valley between the
Andean ranges The whole way / was
in plain sight OF the mountains. some
OF which rose two miles above me.
and I could look over pampas. tho
sod Of which was as smooth rs that
of The lawn in front Of your dwelling.
These high Andean plains, which are
SO far above the sea that twenty-siT
Washington Monuments resting one
ON TOD % tho other would not reach
10 their altitude. were covered with
sheep. alpacas and liamas, and spotted
with the mud huts OF the Indians. The
latter part o; the journey was over
plains that once formed a part of the
he'd Of the lake. and 7 crossed many
streams that were winding their way
As came nearer Lake Titicaca. the
cultivated patches Increased. The soil
was richer. and there We're hundreds
of Indians working their crops OF
barley. potatoes and quinua. The
nocks % sheep became larger. and
was told that there are haciendas
nearby. each OF which has flocl>s num-
ber!ng thousands.
We stopped Mt luliaca, mud an hour
later landed n Puno. tin and mud
town OF ono and two-story buildings.
rooted with galvanized IRON re-
member seeing an American windmill
close 10 tho station, that seemed 10
wave It's arms in welcome To me as
-he train took me out on the long pier
20 the steamer Yavarl. There | en-
bnrked for my "trip across the lake
from Peru 70 Bolivia. The distance Is
100 miles. aNd we were steamiOg all
night and the greater part OF the morn
Eng. ] am now ut Guaqui. the Bolivian
port on the southern end OF the lake.
and not Very far from the mouth Of
the River Desagundero. This river
forms the outlet of the lake. 1t ear
-!Cs is waters into Lake POOpo. which
e only few hundred feet lower down
nearer the sea. There are a dozen
rivers that TOW into Lake 'rit.cat'a, 7fut
the only one that flows out OF II Is the
Tesaguadero. This river connects
Lake Titicaca with Lake Tampa Aul-
laueas, or Lake Poopo. as ii is some
times called. Lake Poopo is only ono
third as largo as Lake Titicaca. ana it
has no visible outlet. Lake 'riticaca
receives every minute more than 1000
Tons of water from tie streams that
flow into It. while less Than sixty tons
per minute are known 10 How out.
Lake PoOpo is its only reservoir. and
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never been carefully surveyed have
6 map Of il MADE bv tho railroad M,
shows tAat Il has as many grca, hsys
rs the 1entaclcs Of an octopus II has
depths tha; have never been sounded.
tors wind in and out in places like a