| Show i an I M A n w w V V J V W a V V T r I TilE THE i RAINLESS REGION OF PERU I Life Llla Along Atoll Plantations In For tilo Valleys tho the J i Ji J imperial Correspondence Palpa l Peru leru ru April i It III rain ess ens Cs region of ot Peru which comprises he the Insert desert strip between th the Andes Andea and amI h b sea aea ea I le III about 40 41 wide and a n dm md mil mimeo long It f in locally known 3 s 11 l the Hie uninhabited of or the n difficulty of ex existing exI j I sung there thare v r tt a stream dream from hr the mountain brings bring It Us melted snows down through the desert d ert an all Is le n J I L which wl loh planters have l from frum time immemorial The th were no mean agriculturists 1 ana eM re they the h It tl produced in Their extended north and south lOuth SWO tin ml nJ s and an east eal from the Pacific coa coast t blut l o mile l to th till vast Valt forest of th which witch their simple tools were to subdue An As 11 fur far back el us as th conquest energetic Jesuits made mlle war upon these thelle deserts and ant andon on urt them aa as easily ai na they had hd tile the Indians Whim Where Irrigation li Is I poI Lie bic the barren strip o of ot sugar auger coffee cortI and 1111 other r ell l I i and it 11 I 15 not Impossible In that industry and capital may maon one day dayl d cJ y yi i l JIm d in rn the whole of ot It it If It half the money mop v that nan hM been hoen waited waned In III Per ler n 11 revolutions revolution had luul been expended In tb Ib o d of ot the mine mines and crl resource of ot Peru and If It thet the t sl t had dug Irrigating ditches ditch with th tilt the ardor they have fought each esch other oilier there would be bo no Ito richer country on the globe The plain of ot whose town la 1 I occupies bout the OF OI TIlE SS T c celebrated but plain b Is III ead only h from 18 11 nU nUI the n Ions I ng n but o extends x In breadth from tile the to the son aea At U its III southern pad end nd arc are small swamps where reels are Cultivated for tor making h the matting of ofle le e the which bloh supports its the roofs oot of ot th hooves then thun cornea comes a barren bit cov cow covered COVered ered aced with lilt stony mounds and clumps nf or late palms stretching away pray to the thed d ert The Tho northern end Is entirely different Close to Place Pisco are nN rich pas turca turA for tor mules horses horse and cattle meadow B of ot alfalfa tropical clover clove r and 2nd vegetable gardens each Meld field cur sur surrounded ur rounded by hedge rows of ot Into date palms olive orange orane fiR fig and willow trues Ue lie are purple vineyards and long lone teaches of sugar cane tact such separated B tram from Its lis neigh neighbor bor boy by tows row of at willows willow The grapes grown hereabouts are as delicious us as those these of southern France and seem to nave have absorbed a the time breath of ot the nearby ion Jen us as I well ns as tho the sunshine of at per perpetual summer a Grant rent quantities of or If wine aloe and brandy called Italia and ami Pisco Pille are exported from this place ind nd their manufacture Is 18 the industry of oC the valley We visited the or oC o a wine wino maker and an l found It to contain nearly a thousand casks auks holding gallons I regret to say coy that I am unable Jo 10 t a give aloe you t any fig ng urea arcs having hI negle to jot down In Ini of i 1 notebook Information received on onto the Iho spot but the tho ho amount of liquor made malic Is le marvelous considering the lira lied t e d district c a n Italia Is the favorite wine of or Peru leru though much too for general use and Pisco PI co cot though t ugh a 1 most mORt Innocent looking bever beverage I age lie being colorless an nil water contains more Intoxication to the cubic Inch 1 U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U than any other known liquor unless It mar roar be the lie mescal of Mexico There Is a II Portuguese planter here who ho produce three thre distinct kinds of ot wine from rom the lie same am grape one an ex cx v variety Another similar to th the best beat Bu atlas and a II third much mu h like the Inferior mine wines win Thero Thelo Is II oleo also u Ii ar very vel fine and an 4 p r m ding ly l y expensive liquor distilled from a merge lure white rape rope flavored with the lat hat hatter latter i iter ter being heln the moat delicious fruit to lx lit found In ht the All along the tho reach were Immense where tha h Pisco la ts stored In III huge red jars Jar ar shaped much like e un nn shell to the various ports of ot Peru and nu Chill ny BY The Th large estates of ot Canate Canale are mostly motI cultivated cult t 1 by negroes assisted by b a 11 few They ap sp appear pear to li sis as a happy and contented a u 1 lot jut of tit SH as one can con find In III n R lung long days day journey Though no longer slaves their half I labor lallOr Is III still forced and though they tsY receive little mure more thun than fool food poor clothing and poorer lodging they thy ate alt al at least t sure cure of oC that of at when III ill end and exemption from trum the taxes that so oppress R those who ho undertake to bo IX Independent ll I In the morning before going to work all 1111 the th women and girls repair to the thedoor thedoor door dour of oC the chapel and sing a hymn of praise upon their knees knee and again at nt sunset when the labor of ot the day Is III dune dom thanking heaven for their lives live of at servitude 1 I think thank jt was in 1881 1111 that the rather theT lI law was VAS which deflated declared that thal all alt Ut then In III slavery laver should remain so lo o luring life lite but hut that theIr children be free tree when arrived at the lie age nile of or 50 M and the Ile grandchildren horn burn free tre The rue avowed object of at this slaw law process was wal to grad Irad gradually gradually the pluvus slava haw to the Idea of liberty anti AmI to fit nt there them for tor Iti It while white nt at atthe the same time limo their th lr owners night might get lIet ready rendy for tor th the change by importing Crl none nOle whose cheap labor It was Will thought would prevent the tte negroes from for too high Wages 1118 when entitled entitle to lu any wines wages at nt till oil In III 1661 however Ion Can who was Va then president of Peru a 1 decree proclaiming the freedom of oC fill all slaves As AA was antici anticipated the majority of ot them were un tin unwilling willing to I leave en f their former masters to tI whom they were endeared endured by almost paternal kindness and the recollections of ot childhood and therefore the condi condition tion of timings things t tia as not perceptibly changed Jt It Is calculated that the keep keel of at one of ot those these negroes costs his master ter not less Ie than bait HO 40 a II year and few tew of ot them earn munch much more than then that amount If It left to themselves elves to work or piny play according to their own desires d they Uy le would certainly earn mum much h lees leas CANI Next to the cultivation of ot sugarcane engrosses the people p ople in inthe tho the neighborhood of at Pisco ll co and as nB rain never falls though ugh the tho weather Is come ROthe times limes quite cd c d the necessary Irrigation lion tion requires great g care rare and labor nut Hut though the cline cane Is backward in matur maturing maturIng ing It Is 18 of coarser texture containing more morl juice than in milder regions and yielding n a greater amount of oC sugar The proprietors of ot the Canate CIano te haciendas are aro mostly Englishmen and an excellent class of or country gentlemen they th lire are i hospitable ho upright anti and much kinder to their dependents than titan the Peruvians are lue Inclined I II Id to be The rh fl buildings but Ings on the estates ore HIP ni ily large larga 1211 handsome and a II ii ur of ono one on ap applies applies plies pili equally W v II ll to r till tin blur rest lest t Ono One side of 01 lh Ilse tt rt n lo 1 e c T li IM devoted to On the tI or sugar mill the bulling store storerooms rooms while unite the th utter Hide Bide shelters the owners family faintly In n lung lunK lofty and anti airy ulry apartments all 1111 on the till ground flour amid extremely I well welt Adjoining the tho house houte Is II ohm a 1 chapel and a res 18 resident ident priest t Is hi whoso duty It Is l to look out lut for the wel wl welfare welfare fare fRI of ot everybody on en the estate from the lord of oC the inn manor nor to o the lowest do pendent IJ AT 1 rIm Thu B Life In thew Isolated I Is le Isby leby by no means disagreeable Everybody v see very lY early takes taken a 1 bit a cr broad and cup of coffee and nna goes about his hl at of her especial 1 1 avocation tho the master mastel riding over oler the Heidi fields n and the mistress attending to the house houle affairs M lt t 10 clock ft it I m III breakfast Is II served and the meal into on t tl of ot soup eggs poached or fried tried and garnished with aces of ut fried banana various arloU dishes of or meat and find chocolate At 4 conies comes dinner soup fish a roast some vegetables well wail garnished with old alit a 1 sauce tf Or red rcpt toppers peppers dul dill cles elN B sweet e t mess meats wino vine and amt coffee cartee About i out 9 p in ma there la Is supper of tea tell bread breSIl and am dull lI Attached to th the house Is hi a II beautiful Jt gordon garden of or fruits fruit I and Mowers lowers with a stream tream of ot water running through It from which the leg lee lesef ser eer ef Irrigating ditches are aro tilled III led lie IIII trees there are Me hedges of or runes rosee and und thickets of gerani geraniums paths bordered ly lIy and trellises covered with choicest grapes and arbors shaded u with Ith passion vines Adjoining the garden sard n nIs is the thc or nr negro quarters n a I Cole col collection lection of ot huts ranged around a n central square the whole hole surrounded by a high wall wallA wallA A short railway line IIno connects Pisco within with he the Ihl cotton colton regions of or Yea Y n run running fling ning southward through the beur ing log plain and across lu 10 u miles mills of desert rt The Th of at this department which Is IN nio nl called Yea Is le the tho largest t between and Arequipa It U Inland about iO 10 o mlle miles separated from frum tin the wa set by th the h des desert rt and u a rouge range of lIr n wndy wady Mast Half way between Pisco 1111 i nd Yea the dusty In I hen beau a tilled by II a forest crest of date axle 1 co COIn emir In un 1271 ales of td IC r rules miles III II es in to midst of which stands a deserted 1 ll lenda named Villa The word leot Is of compound aIlI h and origin oily in inand and H means Oily City sit t Hold fold A good many Indian graves or nr are found round In till til tills lIch end of or them fluent containing not Its but ut pottery lottery small slush Idol and golden ornaments and the slur goes lon that the ghosts Of t the time Il salt land nU have driven il the usurpers user f from t tile II estate which or O time the sits elte tor torr ro heir r oily city Just boycott beyond this enchanted tn It Is Ittin IsIlene tin Uw estate of or former belonged b to the Jesuit fathers Ond was the scene of one aile of ot the lime blo In th tho the war of or o Then conic conio anti and cotton Ilton Melds with h rowa of ot UK ilg trees tre w mind mid losis 2058 1011 add then the neat til MI 11 Ingo 1110 whir I te e have dubbed Yea and Auen Anen It contains about In III and Iles In the of a n lovely plain live Uve or six miles from the th toot foot of at the SilO show Cordilleras lee 11 houses art are built hullt In the pre pit falling rolling style tle of the roast coast their Hat flat roofs covered with tiles lIIs Peaceful us UI It t looks leoke bathed In tn golden sunshine and 1 hy by h fields IIII there thre Is Isoac Isone one Qi source of ot terror vU vie vUthi thi th he whose fre frequent visits have loft kit seams upon all the Bur Ilir Jn in 11 lil Ii tl I the die older Ve Yea which Stood some six miles further farther south wax waa on eel one aile stone left upon u Ion another In the th present ent town ton the th rout rouf of or tho the cathedral and the tho walls walla of at one aliI of ot the churches churche have hlo fallen tallen ln time the churches of San Sn Mi and Sun Bun arc aro badly I r and there Is le hurdly a house houte that thal haH hI not suffered more or 01 l less s not the lilt mysterious myler lII i tower ower that limit none can withstand H II W AIm |
