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Show "i.AKr-9 FAfl A-OVt SEA LEVEL. lr-lerlftu H,MllaM of IVatae Foaad la lis lantlltaraa. I ' m ( r t tbe highest town " r 1 11 u 1 hi n railroad of 111 i - Inn Mk l.Kunlllaa, or 1 1- '1 1 1 f t 11 i irilllkraa where i;r 11 I I irc lakea of iry cold I iri 11 1 witliuui lulii or outlet iv ( liostun Jiiiirnnl They re iIm 1 ne ralnnge ur the surround lug hills and mnreal It Rome-hi Rome-hi re h it there It no vlslb e meant of Its uup A fringe of Ice forms sronnl the edgts of tht lakes every night the ) r round yet tiny contain an excellent variety of nth called tbe fcjirra) which la caught near the shore and sold at l'umii and In other neighboring towns. The two largetl lakes Harachocha and Caehlpatiana with set eral smaller una In the eame neighborhood, arc uwntal by the family of Mr Romania of Arequlpa who bat Just been elected president of Peru lie ownt Immeniu tracts of land In thlt locality with thousands of thtep ratUc latnai alpacnt nnd vhunat which are herded upon It A curious phenomenon about the laket Is that they keep at the same lel all the time regardless of dry and rainy tet sons No amount uf rnln will make any dlffirence wlili their depth, which bowcw, In the center Is unknown Aud thlt adds to tho nwo and m) story with which they aro regarded by the Indians There are no boan up in the lakes except n few amxll bilsai, or rafts, msde of bundles of straw which kttp wry close to the shorn for fear of being drawn Into tho whirlpools that ara said to exist In tho renter Theto It tomt foundation for thlt foar, for only two or throe yean ngu a balsa containing flte men disappeared In the darknts,aud it wat novir heard (if again Of course. It may have ben tipped over nud Its occupants bate been paralysed by the cold water In an ordinary way, but their bodies were neter recovered, nor did the balsa ever float to shore. Therefore the people peo-ple think the whole party was lurtd Into n maelstrom and salluned up I by the mysterious waters Tbe whirl-I whirl-I pool near the cenlor of I ake Popo, I which raceltos tho waters ot Lake rilknra, Is well known end hundreds of men hnve lost their lives by leu-luring leu-luring too near It lknts that are drawn Into the current are whirled around anlftly a ftw time and then d upprar For tht pro e Urn of nail gatora the government of llollvla bat anchored n lot of buoys in Like Popo, j nnd boatmen who olfrve tlum art In I no danger There Is tuppueed ta bt an linden round outflow f oro nil thett like It It claimed that artle et which liao been thrown Into their wattrt haro afterwards been picked up on the acacoast near Africa and cnteful ob-ten ob-ten en say that on the beach In that locality nre frequently found cornstalks, corn-stalks, rredt and other debrlt which do not grow on the coast but are found In great abundance imoug the Interior lakes |