. 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 . t; and, besides, we had lashed to our sidea large lighter, or bongo, filled with extra freight that we hadto take up the river with us. The country was inundated in alldirections, and no high land was in sight. We saw thousands ofwater-birds of many kinds : white herons and egrets; large gray andblack herons {Ardea cocoi), somewhat like our blue heron ; a speciesof large tern, its body and tail appearing whitish, and i
. 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 . t; and, besides, we had lashed to our sidea large lighter, or bongo, filled with extra freight that we hadto take up the river with us. The country was inundated in alldirections, and no high land was in sight. We saw thousands ofwater-birds of many kinds : white herons and egrets; large gray andblack herons {Ardea cocoi), somewhat like our blue heron ; a speciesof large tern, its body and tail appearing whitish, and its primaries,in strong contrast, black [Phaethusa magnirostris). This tern wefound abundant for four hundred miles up the river. The riverwas so high that no sand-bars were exposed, else we would haveseen numbers of alligators ; however, before dark we saw a few largeones on some logs. The native name is cayman. I was toldthat there were several species. Shooting at them from the steamerswas prohibited by law some years ago, owing to careless shootingby which a native woman on shore was killed ; but our captaingave us permission to shoot when we got farther up the i^9 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TEOFICS. There is a good deal of ceremony at meal-times ; no one takesa seat before the captain, and no one rises until he gives the any one wish to rise before, he says, speaking to thosepresent, con su permiso, by your leave. The meals are servedhurriedly by barefooted Indian boys, and were not so bad as wehad been led to expect. There are but two meals a day, though
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