. The Spanish-American republics . admit the fact, and insinuate thatthey are victims of determinism. All thisis very strange, in truth, but from what Isaw and heard elsewhere, the authoritiesand many of the inhabitants of Mendoza,Cordoba, Santa Fe, and other provincial towns are not much bet-ter than their colleagues of Corrientes. The river at Corrientes is three miles broad, and navigable forvessels of nine feet draught. The port ships hides, sugar from Posa-das, and tobacco and mate from the Alto Parana. The stevedoreshere are terrible men to deal with; they are like the Indians, whowill w
. The Spanish-American republics . admit the fact, and insinuate thatthey are victims of determinism. All thisis very strange, in truth, but from what Isaw and heard elsewhere, the authoritiesand many of the inhabitants of Mendoza,Cordoba, Santa Fe, and other provincial towns are not much bet-ter than their colleagues of Corrientes. The river at Corrientes is three miles broad, and navigable forvessels of nine feet draught. The port ships hides, sugar from Posa-das, and tobacco and mate from the Alto Parana. The stevedoreshere are terrible men to deal with; they are like the Indians, whowill work to satisfy a caprice, but not regularly; they work until theyhave earned the money to buy a poncho, a watch, or some other ob-ject of luxury that has caught their eye in a store, and then neithermoney nor persuasion can move them. We leave Corrientes at 6 , and at a distance of eighteen milesreach the Tres Bocas, the confluence of the Paraguay and Paranarivers. In broad daylight it is curious to observe the two streams at. VILLAGE ON THE PARAGUAYRIVER. UP THE RIVER PARANA. 357 the point where a long sandy spit marks their junction. The watersof the Parana are of a dirty green color, while those of the Paraguayare yellowish-brown, and for several miles the two mighty streamsflow parallel and unmixed, the meeting of the two being marked by along line of foam, forming, as it were, a white cord stretching downthe middle of the river, and separating the green waters from thebrown waters. The Parana makes a sharp turn eastward, and, underthe name of Alto Parana, may be followed on the map up to aboutthe nineteenth parallel of latitude, where it is formed by the conflu-ence of the two rivers Paranahyba and Rio Grande. A few leagueslower down, the course of the stream is interrupted by the cataract ofUrubupunga. From this point it runs south-south-west until thetwenty-fourth parallel, where it is again interrupted by the cataract ofGuayra. The region traversed thus far belongs
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