. 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 . A i;OMiO UU ( OX lilE AlAUUALEXA.(By pennission of Bureau of American Republics.) among the most delicious of fruits. They were small, with a skinas thin as a kid glove, and of an exquisitely delicate flavor, incom-parably superior to those that we have. These will not beartransportation. From seeing the biuiches before our fruit stores, Ihad always thought that bananas grew pendent on the bunch, butthey grow
. 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 . A i;OMiO UU ( OX lilE AlAUUALEXA.(By pennission of Bureau of American Republics.) among the most delicious of fruits. They were small, with a skinas thin as a kid glove, and of an exquisitely delicate flavor, incom-parably superior to those that we have. These will not beartransportation. From seeing the biuiches before our fruit stores, Ihad always thought that bananas grew pendent on the bunch, butthey grow with their free ends pointing up. The natives raise alittle corn, but there is no systematic method of planting or cultivat-ing it. The difference in cultivation is shown by the ears, on whichthe grains are irregularly distributed, and not in long parallelrows as in our corn. As there are no mills, they grind the little 76 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. corn tliat tliey need between two stones, the same two stones that areused in makiiiij chocolate and also in o-nndino- coffee. The riversupplies them Avitli fish and turtle in abundance, and they easily. .•■•/}; CITKON-BREASTED TOUCAN. trap different birds near their huts. They need but few clothes,they raise enough tobacco for their own use, and the native rum, aguardiente, costs about the same as our cider. Their householdfurniture is limited to a few hammocks, two or three earthenware THE IIAGDALENA RIVER. 77 pots, and a supply of calabashes and turtle shells which serve asdishes and spoons. In the afternoon we came to a portion of the river called An-gostura, or narrows, very narrow and swift, where even with a fullhead of steam we barely crept along*. Here I saw a great manyturtles and alligators, large flocks of macaws, and some roseatespoonbills. Late in the afternoon we stopped for wood and I wentashore, but did not take my gun. Lindauer took one of the guns,and in a few minutes returned with two
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