. Railway age . Strait, the sailers gateway to theEast Indies, the Philippines and the coasts of East Asia, is belowthe monsoon zone, and has but one approach directly from the southand one outbound route, a direct line to the point of Africa. The South American trunk route sweeps around the two longersides of that continent from Cape St. Roque to Panama and on upthe coast of America to British Columbia. Like the other trunkroutes it is fed from two sources, Atlantic North America andp]urope. the two parent streams uniting at Cape St. Roque. Thegreatest sources of traffic for this route in eas
. Railway age . Strait, the sailers gateway to theEast Indies, the Philippines and the coasts of East Asia, is belowthe monsoon zone, and has but one approach directly from the southand one outbound route, a direct line to the point of Africa. The South American trunk route sweeps around the two longersides of that continent from Cape St. Roque to Panama and on upthe coast of America to British Columbia. Like the other trunkroutes it is fed from two sources, Atlantic North America andp]urope. the two parent streams uniting at Cape St. Roque. Thegreatest sources of traffic for this route in eastern South Americaare the Brazilian coffee from Rio Janeiro and Santos, and the grainand animal products of the La Plata ports. Many vessels, devotedonly to the trade of the west coast, call at east coast ports only forcoal, but discharge and receive cargo at many ports upon the westcoast between Valdivia in southern Chile and Guayaquil, few steamers continue this serai-coasting trade along the coasts. Steamship Obidense; Booth Line to Para. of western Columbia, Central America. Mexico and tlio United Statesto San Francisco and Puget Sound. Other steamers round the con-tinent of South America, but have no South American trade. Since1901 a number of steamers have sailed from the Pacific ports ofNorth America for European ports without doing a coasting tradeon route, but all steamers In this trade are an innovation in a tradethat has belonged exclusively to the sailer. At the Straits of Magellan the traffic of this route is swelled byvessels in the New Zealand trade, particularly those returning loadedtoward Europe. With this exception, the South .American trunk doesnot in its steam traffic receive long branches or feeders as doesthe Mediterranean-Asiatic in rounding the continent of Asia. Thedifference is more apparent than real. The Asiatic route skirts theheads of peninsulas, and is often hundreds of miles from the portslying at the heads of the seas indenting the co
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