. 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 . the harbor, headed slightly to thenorth of west, and before night-fall Curagao had sunk out of oursight. We ran along with astrong current and wind in our favor, and the ship rolled consider-ably, but fortunately I had no recurrence of my unpleasant expe-rience on the Venezuela. The second night before reaching Curagao, I saw for the firsttime that constellation of which we have all so often heard, theSouthern Cross, a
. 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 . the harbor, headed slightly to thenorth of west, and before night-fall Curagao had sunk out of oursight. We ran along with astrong current and wind in our favor, and the ship rolled consider-ably, but fortunately I had no recurrence of my unpleasant expe-rience on the Venezuela. The second night before reaching Curagao, I saw for the firsttime that constellation of which we have all so often heard, theSouthern Cross, and thisnight we had a much betterview of it. I must confessto being greatly disappoint-ed. The stars are not sobrigfht as I had been tauahtto expect, nor is the cross asymmetrical one in any arms are not perpen-dicular to the vertical part,nor are they of equal accompanying figure gives the Southern Cross as represented in the geography that Istudied when a schoolboy, and a second figure of the cross in morenearly its true THE SOUTHERN CROSS OF THE GEOGRAPHIES ANDTHE TRUE SOUTHERN CROSS. 28 A FLYING TBIP TO THE TROPICS. We were on board all the clay o£ Sunday, June 19, and wentalong nicely with wind and current in our favor. I saw durino-the day a few petrels, and some large gannets, white, with blackwing-tips, like the common one of our north Atlantic coast. Weexpected to reach Savanilla on the following morning. It Avas cloudyand hot during the day, and there were several small showers. This would seem to be an appropriate jjlace to make a fewremarks about Colombia. I will not attemjit to give a lengthyaccount of the country; for this I would refer to the Encyclopedia,to Bulletin No. 33 of the Bureau of American Republics, or tosome of the works mentioned in the appendix; but I will simplyrefer to some of the leadino- features. The Republic of Colombia consists of nine divisions or depart-ments, each having a capital of its own, and is situa
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