. The adventures of a tropical tramp. s of chugging and puffing, the tug workedus loose, and we went careening down the liveragain through the black night. A few hours ride below was the town of Ma-sisea. We had not seen more than the isolatedshack of a half-breed settler for over a week, andwere anxious to see Masisea. On our map it ap-peared in large black letters. Possibly the mapmaker had hesitated to leave so much blank spacein the interior of South America and had printedMasisea in larger print than it deserved, forwhen we reached there, some time after midnight,there was nothing to be s
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. s of chugging and puffing, the tug workedus loose, and we went careening down the liveragain through the black night. A few hours ride below was the town of Ma-sisea. We had not seen more than the isolatedshack of a half-breed settler for over a week, andwere anxious to see Masisea. On our map it ap-peared in large black letters. Possibly the mapmaker had hesitated to leave so much blank spacein the interior of South America and had printedMasisea in larger print than it deserved, forwhen we reached there, some time after midnight,there was nothing to be seen except a high mudbank. Following one of the Indian sailors witha lantern along a winding path, we finally came tothe village, but it consisted only of half a dozenbamboo houses. The sailor had come for themail. A sleepy but aristocratic postmaster—healso wore pajamas—gave him two letters forIquitos, and we retraced our steps. Masisea,like Puerto Bermudez, is a frontier wireless sta-tion established by the Peruvian AN INDIAN HOME
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