The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-17

bottles TO tne1r noses 10 revive lAc0
faint hearts, and there is one Peru
Wan who has a bottle to his nose and
a gun in his bag. Before I came out
Of the train he told me he had TWO
curses for the soroche. SAID ne.
One Is this smelling bottle" and ne
thereupon asked me to try II. But
will this do tho business" said L
don't know" he replied. but If not
| have a sure cure here" and he
thereupOn opened ms Dag n snow
ed me the revolver.
h last, l am told, is about the
only safe cure for Soroche. The doc
tors can do nothing to help you, n
every one is sure to get it II he stays
on the tops Of the Andes. One may
have it again and again and any IN
discretion may bring on an attack. L
doubt not I shall be more afflicted as
I go on with this journey, but [ shall
keep out in the fresh air and | hope
to get through.
despair OF making you see all the
wonders OF our trip up the m~untains-
| The long chain OF the Andes walls the
whole side of the continent. 1t begins
at Cape Horn and the fiordS Of the
| Strait OF Magellan and goes north
crawling close to the coast in a great
winding rampant for a distance OF
500 miles, when it drops down into
our cut of Culebra on the 1sthnluS or
Panama. Throughout the whole
length. except at the top and the
bottom. this chain has peaks which
are three or 0 miles in height. It's
average elevation is more than H.
600 feet, or almost the height of Full
yama, Japan. Noun A~cOncaQua in
Chile, is about $4,000; Mount Misti,
in southern Peru, is owe 20. 1000, n
there is a peak within sight Of my
eyes, that is $1,000 and more. North
Of here, in Ecuador, are many vol
canoes. including C~himbOrazo. more
than -four miles in height; and south
Of me, in Bolivia. is u plateau which
has an average altitude of 1900 feet,
with no drainage to either the Allan
tic or the Pacific.
Right here in Peru are some Of the
highest elevations, and | shal have to
go over a pass Of ID, 900 feet on my
way to the Inca city Of Cuzco and |
shall cross Lake Titicaca, which, -
: self. is almost two and one-half miles
above the sea.
y These striking attitudes are the
, more impressive on account of the
! s~teepness Of the range which runs
along the coast. It begins right al
q the sea, only a narrow strip of SanG
e separating it from the ocean,. and i
q jumps, as it were, into the clouds.
f rode this morning, through Lima. {
r city Of perhaps 10000. 1t is sit
e uated on the banks Of the Rimac
h close to h gorge into which W
started as we came I'D the noun
4 tains.
During the first part of our journe,
we passed through an irrigated val
ley. Their are fields of alfalfa, suga.
u cane and other green crops on boil
d sides OF the railroad. but the noun
tains over the valley were as arid a
the Sahara. l remember l though
Of the difference between the two side
d Of h Andes, and that IL I could Dor
d a hole right through the desert wa
70 | might come out into the region O
the Amazon, where the waters swarr
C. with turtles and alligators, and wher
n the vegetation is a dense Jungle wit
palms, rubber trees and all sorts c
10 tropical fruits. On this side Of tn
10 mountains there is no rain and every
r thing is dry. On the other side
is rains all the time. The Rimac rive
lis here is not fed by the rains. 1t come
from the SHOWS. which the wine
he from the east have left on the tops {
the Andes.
The vegetation Of the arid Andes
m remarkable. l sat on the rear pla
re form Of the car and dictated my not,
he as we wound our way up the Cliff
at Near the ocean there was no gree
"a, at all. The mighty rocks seemed De
ia. fectly bare and there was no soil
any green thing. By looking closet
ire however, l found gray cacti Clingir
raj to the rocks and siiver-gray mos
int which in places covered the sion
lin like d mantle. These plants we
Der probably fed by the dews.
il 1t was not until we reached Tar
nd borauue, at an altitude Of almost II
miles. that We found our first sprin'
ling Of green. There the rocks seer
ed busted with emeralds. and Il
III green grew fresher and more abur
ant from there to the tops OF +
az mountains. At two miles and q ha
his I found the Andes covered with
sht thin grass. and where | am now.
Mt the beginning OF the great plate,
L q that is upheld by two Of the rano
is which run through Peru. there
hit plenty Of feed for llamas and she.
inc Within the last three or four hor
the we have passed many wild nowa
At one place | encountered forty =,
~rieties and from where am si.t;,f