. 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 . Children Avent naked, or wore but one raggedgarment. We saw one boy of eight or nine with nothing but anold ])uttonless waistcoat which had belonged to a stout man, andwhich flapped around his knees. The women carried their children astride of one hip; everythingelse they carried balanced on the head. We soon found it so hotthat we returned to the steamer, and later Cabell and myself wentout for a walk, leaving Alice o
. 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 . Children Avent naked, or wore but one raggedgarment. We saw one boy of eight or nine with nothing but anold ])uttonless waistcoat which had belonged to a stout man, andwhich flapped around his knees. The women carried their children astride of one hip; everythingelse they carried balanced on the head. We soon found it so hotthat we returned to the steamer, and later Cabell and myself wentout for a walk, leaving Alice on board. We strolled around the THE ISLAND OF CURACAO. 17 streets for about an hour, and then came back. We crossed thedrawbridge through which we lad passed earher in the day. It isa pontoon bridge, a number of whose centre spans are fastenedrigidly together by the road-bed, so that the whole swings open likea gate. On the pontoon farthest from the pivot is a donkey-enginesuch as is used on shipboard. To open the bridge, this engine takesin a rope fastened to an anchor up-stream; to close it, it hauls inon a rope in the opposite direction. It is a toll-bridge, the toll. DEAWBRIDGE ACROSS THE HARBOR AT CURASAO. (From Ilioto^raph by Soublctte.) being two coppers of Dutch money, about equivalent to one centin our currency. The town is very picturesque ; the houses and streets are remark-ably neat looking. Though the island is so near the mainland, whereit rains frequently, here it rains but seldom ; sometimes two yearsgo by without rain. There are no springs or good wells, and fordrinking water cisterns are depended upon. There is, strange to 18 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. say, little or no dust. The houses are of stone covered with stuccoor plastered, and are painted or washed in different colors. Yellowis the prevailing color, but a number are blue, green, white, andpink. The roofs are covered with red tiles. Few of the windows
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