Show f DOWN IN PERU 1 I Ail Insight Into the Country Coun-try the People and Their Dress as Viewed I By Salt LaSce I Boy William I Ilyicr son of Mrs Lee J Chamberlain of this city who Is now in Porn helping to construct the railroad being built by A llr McCune of Salt iLuke In the Andes mountains In a let lei to his mother gives a description of till country and the people where he Is located His letter Is dated at Cerro del f de-l t sco and Is i as follows t PEOPLE AND THEIR DRESS 1 wrote you a letter about the first v t ghln you aa i slight Insight Into the country AV111 give you a little bettor i description in this To begin with the people 1 tad heir t dress They dress tiriJliir to the Alpines or Highlanders mat of them wear kilts long stockings and sandals made of rawhide Their hats are white straw or felt panamas while the kilts arc made from sheep j wool or mina wool The yama Is an animal similar lo the camel They use these for packing Instead of the burro or mule Some have mules some have burros but the yama Is preferred RAIN PROOF BLANKETS < The nlon in i fact all the people here wear their paur has These are blankets all the way from five feet square to eight feet square of different colors t and made from the yama wool which is r about six or eight inches long and like t goals wool When these panehas are woven and spun they t are better than rubber 1 as no rain will penetrate them HOUSES OF SOD GRASS The people all speak Spanish Castl lana or CMtcana < They live In houses or huts made out oC patnpha which is a sod grass The pampha Is nothing more than a prairie of grass and sod and as smooth and level as a floor The huts are mostly round and for roofs they use a kind of bamboo which grows In the interior I rhese are split and the und of each fastened to the walls the other ends are tied together at the top i making it look like an Indian wickiup f In the States they spade < up the sod In pieces about three feet long one foot I wide1 and two inches thick and use them i as shingles or they gather a bullruBh j that grows In the swamps here and put I It on the roof I The omen wear dresses made of the 1 wool of the yama and hats similar l to I those of the men They wear shawls I over their shoulders made I of the same t kind of wool The pnnchau which the men wear have a hole cut In the center I and this we slip over our heads and It m hangs over < 1 our shoulders like a priests I robe 1 The sod they gather and use for fuel I to cook with although there Is an I abundance of coal here hut they prefer > till sod They live on corn and cocoa leaves very llltle bread or meat some Cite and coffee nd l no vegetables ort or-t fruit They raise potatoes onions cab huge and In fact nearly everything that can he gross PEAR LIKE A CUCUMBER For fruit they have oranges lemons TieachcH 1 bananas and a native fruit t Fnanas c called Alligator pears which resemble the cucumber All of this Is raised In I the Interior al an altitude of from 0000 to 8000 fcoi which Is much lower than t where I am al imsmsl Our place is t only nits > miles from Cerro do Pasio V r and ferro de Pasco Is 1UOOO feet above 1 tin sea The natives 1 use twowheeled carts with S I oxen Jlmey very seldom ride only the I w < alllij lass rjde and they have saddle hor ia or mules to t NO TIMBER IN MOUNTAINS I o There is no timber of any kind in the j I Andes mountains except in the Interior where the fruit and other things arc I t raised There Is plenty I 01 water My camp Is 1 only about one mile from a lake is JflflnO feet above sea level which Is thir tyfive miles long 10 miles wide This i lake Is called Lane Lumln or llunln If t RICHES OF THE COUNTRY d The riches of the country are primarily h primari-ly copper and mountains of Itgold de silver lead Iron aHbestos and coal Any amount of coal Is found In Cerro de Pasco The town is built on a hill I of silver and copper about 300 feet high I r The population of Cerro Is about ftOUO or 10000 It Is a treat too when the j teamsters carry to their camps any I Gringo we Americans are called I GrlnfjoF for 1 see nothing nIl day and sometimes two or three days hut natives and have to tnfk to them although r dont know the language very well but I ftoine of them say that I am learning too to-o spenk Spimlsh faster than mohl of the ii Americans who come here for such a f 1 short time |