India rubber world . ings for anything contraband, seeming totake particular delight in running grimy fingers over our tooth-brushes, and to have a deep anxiety to unroll camera films,and so on. We got rid of them at last and boarding a fiat-bottomed sternwheeler were taken across the broad expanse ofBluefields bay, landed at Belangers wharf and at once wentup to La Tropical Hotel for a bath and breakfast. There wasbut one bathroom and that was situated over the kitchen,which was proved by the sign on the wall: Dont slop water on the floor; range just food a soapy flavor. After bre
India rubber world . ings for anything contraband, seeming totake particular delight in running grimy fingers over our tooth-brushes, and to have a deep anxiety to unroll camera films,and so on. We got rid of them at last and boarding a fiat-bottomed sternwheeler were taken across the broad expanse ofBluefields bay, landed at Belangers wharf and at once wentup to La Tropical Hotel for a bath and breakfast. There wasbut one bathroom and that was situated over the kitchen,which was proved by the sign on the wall: Dont slop water on the floor; range just food a soapy flavor. After breakfast we went outand looked over the little cityof frame houses, so radicallydilTerent from most CentralAmerican towns, both in itsarchitecture and in the factthat it is built on a side hillwhere there is a certainamount of drainage. We didnttarry long in Bluefields, how-ever, for our flatbottomed boat,, a sternwheel freight-er, was waiting, and with ourluggage aboard we soon start-ed up through the wonderful. 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 discovery.
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