India rubber world . LA TROPICAL HOTEL, BLUEFIELDS- 330 THb. INDIA RUBBER WORLD IJULY 9»5- system of lagoons and waterways that were to be our pathwayto the rubber plantations. These comprise the Bluefields river, the Escondido( Hiddenwaters) river, and a great variety of deep lagoons and water-ways intermingling in inextricable confusion, shut in by walls of tropical foli-age, an expanseof natural pass-ages so greatthat a navymight easily behidden therewithout the re-motest chance ofdetection. In-deed, in the olddays of the buc-caneers these la-goons were fav-orite retreats,and if closelypurs
India rubber world . LA TROPICAL HOTEL, BLUEFIELDS- 330 THb. INDIA RUBBER WORLD IJULY 9»5- system of lagoons and waterways that were to be our pathwayto the rubber plantations. These comprise the Bluefields river, the Escondido( Hiddenwaters) river, and a great variety of deep lagoons and water-ways intermingling in inextricable confusion, shut in by walls of tropical foli-age, an expanseof natural pass-ages so greatthat a navymight easily behidden therewithout the re-motest chance ofdetection. In-deed, in the olddays of the buc-caneers these la-goons were fav-orite retreats,and if closelypursued a vessellould slip intoone of them, tieafew branches tohertopmastsandrif(v W*L0H0NS STORE -CUKRA ANDTATIONS- CANADA PLAN- The ride up through the Es- condido was simply entranc-ing. There was scarcely a rip pie on the water; the foliage of palms, palmettos, man-groves, wild bananas, inter spersed with patches of pani pas grass the stalks of which were 20 and 30 (eet high, .<i bound together with vines ai ^ spangled with flowers, llu huge flocks of blue and while cranes and the basking alliga tors—all made a panorama so wild in its tropical beauty that it added new fascinations every mi nicni. Finally, late in the afternoon we turned into Sloophouse creek, and a little later were moored at the pier belonging to theCukra plantation. Here we disembarked, and leaving our luggage to be brought up later, followed a narrow gage ba-nana railway up over a little hill, through a part of the 1500acre banana plantation of the Cukra company, and were soon at the house of Mr. Gordon Wafdron, one of the owners, wherewe had a bountiful supper and a most interesting cha
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