. 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 . downthe other side. We reached the crest about nine, going up someplaces worse than a staircase, and just before reaching the top, through a deep andcrooked gorge notwide enough fortwo animals to saw here the useof the brass slip-per-shaped turning sharpangles, my feetwere often pressedagainst the stonesat my sides, andwithout these stir-rups the barefootedriders would havetheir feet injured.;Ve rode
. 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 . downthe other side. We reached the crest about nine, going up someplaces worse than a staircase, and just before reaching the top, through a deep andcrooked gorge notwide enough fortwo animals to saw here the useof the brass slip-per-shaped turning sharpangles, my feetwere often pressedagainst the stonesat my sides, andwithout these stir-rups the barefootedriders would havetheir feet injured.;Ve rode along theridge for a fewyards, and then be-gan the one place the crest was barely ten feet wide, and fell off abruptlyon each side for several hundred feet. From this point the viewwas grand. Through the clouds across to the west we caughtglimpses of the perpetual snow on the Peak of Tolima and the snowfields of the Paramo del Ruis. To our left, to the southeast, layGuaduas in the valley below us. It looked very near, but Ave weretwo and a half hours in reaching it. We went obliquely down theside of the mountain, and found the road not so bad as on the other. A DEEP AND CROOKED GOttGE THE MULE ROAD AND GUADUAS. 95 side except at one place near the foot of the descent, where it ranover a hard stone lying in strata, which sloped in the same directionas the surface of the soil, so it was like riding along on a roof withno foothold for our animals. Alice, in her nervousness from loss of sleep and from thinkingabout the road ahead of us, had not eaten anything before leavingConsuelo, and was now feeling faint from hunger, so we stopped atan inn at the foot of the mountain, and tried to get something toeat. I asked in succession for eggs, bread, coffee, plantains, rice,etc., until I had exhausted my vocabulary, but received the same
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