. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . hings seemed just to run themselves,but after a while we managed to get some rooms, and in about anhour and a half we had some eggs and coffee. Our rooms wereperfectly plain, and with no other furniture than canvas cots. Aftertrying to rest awhile, Cabell and I went out for a short walk to lookaround. We saw a good many birds, flycatchers, swallows, turkey- 98 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. buzzards, black vultures, ani
. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . hings seemed just to run themselves,but after a while we managed to get some rooms, and in about anhour and a half we had some eggs and coffee. Our rooms wereperfectly plain, and with no other furniture than canvas cots. Aftertrying to rest awhile, Cabell and I went out for a short walk to lookaround. We saw a good many birds, flycatchers, swallows, turkey- 98 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. buzzards, black vultures, anis, and flocks of the little blue-rumpedparrakeets. Some of the swallows that Ave saw were somewhat likeour purple martin, a little smaller and not so brightly colored, andthey had their nests under the curved tiles of the roofs. The town is larger than Honda and is spread out over compar-atively level ground. The houses are of the usual type, thoughmany are roofed with tiles instead of thatch. Everything seemeddull and sleepy except the cathedral. During our stay some trav-eling missionarieswere visitino- theplace, and the church^^^^ bells were jangling from morning till. nioht, and were crowdsin and out all day valley is fertileand the clmiate de-lightful, the temper-ature far cooler thanat Honda, and blank-ets are needed atnight. Guaduas issaid to be about3,400 feet above thesea. I was struck withthe o-reat numbers ofwomen of the poorerclass suffering fromgoitre. Hardly one in five of the middle-aged women was free fromit, and many of the men were also sufferers. Some have attributedthis disease to the drinking of water from melted snow of the snow-clad peaks, but hardly within a weeks journey of Guaduas could GOITRK. THE MULE ROAD AND GUADUAS. 99 such water be found. Others have attributed it to Hving at highaltitudes, but there are many people living in higher regions thanGuaduas who are not affected. In Guaduas I foinul that the womenwere more affected than the m
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