. The Spanish-American republics . nfluence of the Y-Guazu, andabout four hundred miles from Corrientes. Beyond this point noscrew or paddle steamer has been able to conquer the rapids, currents,and eddies. The whole of the banks of the Alto Parana, from VillaEncarnacion up to the Salto de Guayra, are covered with forests ofycrba mate, or Paraguayan tea, and the chief traffic is the transport ofthis article. Not being able to sacrifice the five or six weeks or more 358 THE SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS. necessary for a trip into these solitudes, which are said to be grandlypicturesque, I remained
. The Spanish-American republics . nfluence of the Y-Guazu, andabout four hundred miles from Corrientes. Beyond this point noscrew or paddle steamer has been able to conquer the rapids, currents,and eddies. The whole of the banks of the Alto Parana, from VillaEncarnacion up to the Salto de Guayra, are covered with forests ofycrba mate, or Paraguayan tea, and the chief traffic is the transport ofthis article. Not being able to sacrifice the five or six weeks or more 358 THE SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS. necessary for a trip into these solitudes, which are said to be grandlypicturesque, I remained, not without regret, on board the Olympo,which being bound for Asuncion, continued northward up the Para-guay River, passing Humaita, 884 miles from Buenos Ayres, a placefamous in the annals of the Paraguayan war, the disasters of whichare still testified by the ruins of a large church. The next morningwe stopped at Villa Pilar, and then at Formosa, an Argentine militaryfrontier station, and the seat of the Governor of the Is i :. ■. ..-1 T ■■■ ■ 3Gr|s CABILDO AND PLAZA AT CORRIENTES. The scenery of the Paraguay River is charming; the banks arecovered with luxuriant forests full of parrots, monkeys, and birds; thenumerous affluents, fringed with trees that are reflected in the glassywater, are beautiful and soft as English country landscape. The com-parison, however, cannot be carried into detail, for the muddy andsandy banks of the affluents, as well as of the main stream, are blackwith large and small alligators basking in the sun. So we steam UP THE RIVER PARANA. 359 along past orange-groves, broad plains dotted with dwarf palms, thickjungle, and forest, where the trees are inextricably linked together bycreepers and lianes. Occasionally on the Paraguayan side, where theground is always elevated a reasonable height above the river, whileon the Chaco side it is low and swampy, we note a few cottages,orange-groves, cattle, and women robed in white and carryi
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