Show 0 j IN BOOK OF MORMON LANDS U Utah Ut j Student and Traveler Tr veler the tho News Concerning Experiences In Central l and South A the tho Wilds Written for tor or the Deseret News New Mr Joel secretary of tul ti nook Book 1001 1 found or of Mormon Institution cd by t th Young Youn of oC time loft left on rn a trip to Logan ago lef a Central and una South America to of ot th the 1 Into 11 0 the geography I country c described e In tho Book nok of Mor Mor Mormon mon mOi He la hI now flOW conducting his r r re antI and the he first of hi Ida letters leters I J which will be printed In the tho Nw I from tro m t tf to time Is l vrOn te here herewith herewith with Hondo honda Hondl Colombia April Apri P J am sit Bit si tine tint on a point of ot rock that pushes puah It I silt esit above the mass muss about m n mi Tb Tbt h hI I t king hing of at day duy Is almost straight over my head bead but tho the cool bre breus breezes that blow about me mo his poYer Wi At tt my feet feat and With almost a n sheer descent 0 of t tot Wih 1 l OO feet teet flows Hows in a great half hai moon mon weep a I river Its Is It water dl ills I colored by tho iho red reil clay of ot tin I moun mountains moul ly rl thins near n or Its Is source are lr rushing madly over the tho boulders as aa I If I In a hurry to toi tl I i reach tho the sea a Just beyond the river 1 nestles a I quaint old city Its Ia odd look I 1 InH Ind buildings Its it old ol cathedral and ami oar nor bul iA row streets proclaim it U a Spanish l city of ot tho the sixteenth century Beyond the city for a mile or two are rich pastures that fall I oft mie or in terrace e towards towar l lh the 1 river On beyond tho the postures are ore half halfa hiI a n dozen oten narrow rocky ridges from two to 10 live five hundred feet high that break 1 away Jve the tho great range to 10 the west westI 1 I and tailIng falling down terminate here On OnI I beyond the ridges and almost hid now I 1 which by the tho cloud mass mountain range ranges is II one OM of or tho the greatest I of ot the world Towards the northwest f Just beyond b the river Is 18 a n high meso several square miles mileti There Thee ore are but butew few trees tree upon It and Its Is grassy I i 1 pastures look as I green as Utah alfalfa fields felds In May ay The rho Th hill hi on which the tho th I mesa meca mea Is situated rises abruptly from the river to a 0 height of several hundred feet teet and Ind rises gradually as us al It 11 stapes back towards s the mountains Further north the country looks rough ami broken There Is a n rapid flowing little littleriver river comes down between the ti me mesa a and an andy y the rocky ridges and an l X can see seo that It Ithal 4 has hal scooped out n a considerable valley I f luck back In there ther which from this distance looks like grass covered plains The rIdge on which I stand begins near lear the Iho river 2 25 miles northward and hugging i the cast caM bank terminates about abut eight or ten miles mies southward from this point though It falls fol down gradually and ends In a little narrow nerOW ridge rido of or rooks At Al Almy my 0 feet lite on narI the east eAt In is II beautiful ft little valley about two and Ind a halt haIr or three miles vl wide I 1 should hould Judge jUllo and Ind nd sloping southward o open o nl out into the th wide vide vol 11 ly Iy Alt All Al the Iho eastern easler horizon Is a vast mountain range whose whom II summits are Ir now Wd hut hiI In iu II Br U of It white cap clouds that hang hong about I but wl Its HI cp tire an for CO fO 0 miles mies lut to the northeast and an for 75 miles or more mare mareto to the southward Tek milt miles or so co south or oC me ins Is I a consIderable volley valley valoy several miles mile wide wid and a far ter away Iway to mie the southward a D as far to I ls as my oy 1 eye can on penetrate th the baSe luie halt Through this vall valy valley y yI I 1 van can follow the river In Its meander lags Ings cn for Or nearly too 10 mit miles anti and to the northward until It I Is lost in the great plains hook Book Uok of at Mor Mormon Mormon Mormon mon student tell u us that the great grat riv nv river nver er II Is the of f t the th that th the broken n mountainous country to the wont weSt wo t Is I the land lahd lala Zurah mla That Tha this hill bill II li tin tift hill hi where Alma hi fought the Am That hat th the little lite valley to the outward eastward Is I the tha valley valey of Gideon that Up lp beyond the point whore where this hill bill hi was the land lanI of Menon U 11 l this thiN b true nl or not hot nt every tery Book nok of Mormon student will wi follow me closely through this ti interesting try tr and In trip lr in humble way was WI I 1 hal try tryam tr am aud ad show him th country us lS It I U la Hut JuC before I 1 pro farther r he will Wl want vant to know why hy I t came here here JO If I 1 loft left let Salt Sal Lake Like City Cl on the It I a O W Woven evening oven In train F Feb b IT 27 f We escaped tile the snow Inow blockade In western Kansas lulls and reached Kun OJ Sunday morn morning mornIng morning ing March 1 3 I 1 coiled called at the tile L D B 13 mission minion and later took a 1 run out to Independence on tho tile trolley lint line lne and spent the afternoon wUI some lomp friends members of the Reorganized church I attended their service serIce In II the basement of their new church which stands across the tha street opposite the tho th temple lot After Ater services cervices I 1 book a n book oer the famous temple lot and alid In the tha evening returned to Kansas City ly On the morning of the second econ I took Mis Missouri MissourI saud Pacific train for New Orleans via St Louis We laid lold over three thre hours at Little Hock Ark Ak and I spent the tho time looking booking about the city There are ara some pretty nice buildings among which Is the Ule old stale Itne house with wll its great geat Co Co Corinthian columns and Its Ia famous statue of Columbia and Ind her ber daughters The Thu state legislature Is ii In iii session Its ls lower house blouse passed yesterday an nn act that thol Is ii of great grell importance to tho the col coi colored colored ored people of ot the he le state It I provides that all oh ni school taxes paid by white peo pea i ipIe pie shall be used to educate white chil children I dren and Ind taxes poll by 11 colored people eole I Ito to toi educate colored children Tilsa H i practically closes the t ho schools of tile life Ue I state pt teto to colored children them to Ivl of Ignorance After bay leuv baying Ing Little Lite Hock flock we run down the Ar r river for or some distance und call alil then turn south That part of ot Arkansas through which we pass pan Is nil all al densely densol timbered and the tle people seem sell to luck lack Inc tile the thrift of the people l of the north Our tle course takes us parallel to the Mis and we see Its ve 1 ll see boats bont like huge hUgO monsters moving about among the tle tree treo tra tops The river liver ler Is very high and uld the water being confined by the tho levees the water ovel la IS I W 20 feet f et or more the tM our lur ur rounding run ln plains If J the tho levee should break half halt of or the tho state of at Louisiana nn would be b submerged All 1 day of ot the wo we 10 ran Tn through tho the cane sugar district and everywhere are great Ireat sugar augur plantations with wih ther factories live five or lx 1 of which are arc IUt in sight at nil all al times which with wih the whitewashed cabins cn ln of at attrie the trie laborers look lol hUm Hc little Ito villages The cane Is l curried carried canle to the motile mills by b little railroads which radiate from the fac tac nO tories torten In irs II every direction We ve have left far behind tho the rigors of our northern winter and 01 now the balmy bollY breezes brec of ot spring tan fan our cheeks cheek The he fields feld are covered with grass and flow flowers ers ens er and wo so WC hear henr the lie old familiar croak of the frogs In the time pool pooh Peach earh J trees treel are In bloom anti and trees are beginning to loaf lot Gren Omen Or can onions and ad radishes in Inthe inthe the are arc ready for tor the tle market We reach Algiers Opposite New Or Orleans r leans beans at 1 I i V n m Pt 1 and old after some soma delay dela our train Is ferried over to the city W WP ve are arc unloaded nt lt II n I little dirt dirty stag sta station tion ton on the levee leeo have to walk through the muddy streets four tour or five Ave blocks block block before wo we can cnn get Int a street car cor corWe We are oro taken to Canal Conal street a broad beautiful street from tram which we reach rench our hotel I 1 visit the time steamship office and nn learn that my steamer which should hould sail sll on tho the Is II delayed and will not get off ot until urt the time so I have three wi days to look about about the city IN NEW ORLEANS New Orleans Is II what we ve call cal an old oldtown oldtown oldtown town It I was founded something over two hundred years ago alO and like all al towns of that period the streets are arc nr very narrow They rhey claim In Inhabitants inhabitants habitants ver I Judge of ot them must mUt be colored They claim tho the city cU cUIs Is la very healthy but I 1 seo see how howit heathy it can be lying as 01 It does doel below the i I I i I river level Tho Thu ho streets generally are poorly paved with wih stone atone and are arc very verr and d the sewage system Is some something thing liming awful The Tite new residence dis ills district dIstrict which lle leH lies out St Charles street river above the many very vel vetS beautiful river homes There mere here are soy sev several levet eras eral etral ral small parks that are very vcr nice In Inthe et the he th parks are a number of monuments That of at hen Gen U It I E B Leo Len out at itt It the St Charles circles circle Is the tIme best bl t It I stand standS standon standal on al a I reat Corinthian column feet foet high and nn represents the lime general stand standing ing watching some somo important army urmy lomo movement The he Jackson monument monument stands in u a little park pork In the tho old French I district Just 1 In front of or time the old rathe cathe cot he diRl It I represents the general on oft horseback Just as he must hUN have looked lOOke on the day or of l his famous vie vic victory vl tory The John Joll McDonogh monument Is Interesting because b of ot the story con connected conn n ct with It It was MB erected by the wih I school chool children of the city and consists consist of or ft a 1 life bite sited bust which the time children lre are decorating with flowers was an In avaricious Ival lous grasping old money moneylender mOley moneylender lender who at lt his death left lef nil all ni of hU his fortune fortuno to be used In establishing tree free 11 schools chool for the children of ot tho the city Mother Margaret kept ke t a shop hp and made mudo monty which sue she left lett for tor the tho founding of a hospital anti and they have huo erected on an appropriate I monument t ther to her bier memory What Interested me most moat In tn tha oily was 1 its I cemeteries The old fd ll Bt t i i Louis ls cemetery l ls tery was v a original Just juat outside of vf the old aid French fort tori bi but butIs Is now in tho the heart henrt of the tho city I I It occupies nw a walled enclosure about abol ha haas halt as 01 a large as 0 one of our city blocks Be lIe Because cause of ot the presence of or water near nea neatho the tho surface the dead are tre oil all al burled buried I iii hi tombs above ground Some of these thele however ore are very beautiful Generally lt they are aro built buit of brick 10 or 12 1 fee sot high with spaces left lef In tiers ter and Id on one wih the tho other Into which the time coffins are inserted a I marble lab In is I then placed placed placed ed II over the opening and sealed up I 1 understand this Is II the proper property property ty t of the church and that tombs nr are rented for a 1 term of o years nt at lt the th ox ex which the 1 are Iro taken take takeout out I 1 did not like to ask uk what became tot lot of the remains but lut In a secluded spot I l saw paw a heap of old partly decayed CollIns coffins I J was told toh that the bones were O thrown Into a hole when they did no not find And their way Into time the medical college Omitting these latter later features tho the System ys tern tem has ha some canto advantages over ours es ea especially where whore our cemeteries ore are a lo ho II on hillsides above our towns tons I visited the bathing resort resort at the West WestEnd End Ind The water looks loks like It Iw lud drained d from the surrounding swamps The bathing might do nil all nl right for New Net Orleans Orle t but it would not do for i 1 a who had known Salt Sal Luke Lake The They told me everywhere that I 1 should no not fail to le see seo the th old French Market am and the marble to room In the new federal federa tle building I 1 was Interested In the mar market market market ket but tho the marble room rm was a a It I was dark and gloomy gloom nail the th marble looked smoky and dirty Tho The onyx work In tho the city ely and count county building beats bents It all ni hollow ON TIllI Il RIVER The Tha Th little town ton of Dorado is 19 noW nov nOI practically ha tho head hend of ot navigation 01 on the th Magdalen although when the nv er cc Is II high boats bonts can cal be taken up u to the thi foot root of the rapids nearly 15 miles fur further further further ther and small boats bots are sometimes sometime drawn up through the rapids wih bl c and tackle and can cn then run rn U Uthe up the valley valey for nearly 20 miles mies Dorado Is ii situated on the edge edg of at a 0 wooded Plain that extends back some distance from corn the river On the north the tIme plain opens out Into inti Int the hilly hi slopes but on ot the south Is I n mu group of ot steep tep buttes connecting with a ii I range of ot hills hla that comes down 10 from the western welter Cor Con There Thero Is a narrow gauge railroad running from tram Dorado to above the th rapids s at Honda 24 miles mies Leaving Dorado we wo run for a ft mile or two through a 0 dense tropic jungle we then ther ten pass the hills his for tor n a 1 mile mie or two ant and come out Into Inlo ft n region lf r rich grassy grass pastures pa tures extending along the river for foi several miles mies and Ind back a mile mJe or two to tOI forest covered vales that stretch away Iway westward betWeen ridges of ab abrupt Ib rupt hills his About Olt 12 1 miles mies from Hondo honda londa Jutting spurs pun of ot high hl h hills hlA come rIght down dana to the river bank and we e wine wind along the tIme slopes until we 0 reach rench Honda On our left all al the way up Is the tho river and Just beyond It a ft steep hill hili hi rising from the waters wa tors edge eege to a 0 height of ol 1200 feet teet or or more moreAN moreAN moreAN AN OLD SPANISH TOWN Honda Is a typical old Spanish town Narrow stone paved streets and brick and stone houses with wih tile roofs II It I te lies les along the Magdalena and the luau Gual a a little lite rapid river that comes cornea down from the western wester hills his The houses are lre mostly mOUY one story stor on account of the earthquakes which are quite Ire fret frequent quent in these regions The Te town was wa founded about 1510 1640 15 0 and Ond during the next years was IS quite an Important point as ns much of ot the gold from Peru passed through here on its Is way to Spain One o othe of the most moat Important relics ol ot the old period Is tho tha stone bridge over the Quail Quai It I was wrecked by an nn earth earthquake earthquake quake more Inure than no ilO years ago and a n fw tw years ngo a 0 portion porton of It tell fell tel down The remains are still 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