. 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 . ore but one raggedgarment. We saw one boy of eight or nine with nothing but anold buttonless waistcoat which had belonged to a stout man, andwhich flapped around his knees. The women carried their children astride of one hip ; everythingelse they carried balanced on the head. We soon found it so hotthat we returned to the steamer, and later Cabell and myself wentout for a walk, leaving Alice on board. We strolled aroun
. 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 . ore but one raggedgarment. We saw one boy of eight or nine with nothing but anold buttonless waistcoat which had belonged to a stout man, andwhich flapped around his knees. The women carried their children astride of one hip ; everythingelse they carried balanced on the head. We soon found it so hotthat we returned to the steamer, and later Cabell and myself wentout for a walk, leaving Alice on board. We strolled around the THE ISLAND OF CURACAO. 17 streets for about an hour, and then came back. We crossed thedrawbridge through which we had passed earlier in the day. It isa pontoon bridge, a number of whose centre spans are fastenedrigidly together by the road-bed, so that the whole swings open likea gate. On the pontoon farthest from the pivot is a donkey-enginesuch as is used on shipboard. To open the bridge, this engine takesin a rope fastened to an anchor up-stream; to close it, it hauls inon a rope in the opposite direction. It is a toll-bridge, the toll , , ./%■ fifi US * -* s.
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