. The adventures of a tropical tramp. NATIVE BOATMEN ON THE WEST COAST. Down the West Coast in Steerage 11 prise. The Pacific side of the continent reallyconsists of three longitudinal strips of distinctlydifferent country—a barren stretch of brownsand along the coast, as rainless as Sahara;a mountainous Andean chain behind it, as loftyand gloomy as Tibet; and finally in the far in-terior, the land of impenetrable jungle which theuninformed stranger fancies to comprise allSouth America. And of the three types of country, the coastaldesert is quite the least attractive. Such citiesas exist are
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. NATIVE BOATMEN ON THE WEST COAST. Down the West Coast in Steerage 11 prise. The Pacific side of the continent reallyconsists of three longitudinal strips of distinctlydifferent country—a barren stretch of brownsand along the coast, as rainless as Sahara;a mountainous Andean chain behind it, as loftyand gloomy as Tibet; and finally in the far in-terior, the land of impenetrable jungle which theuninformed stranger fancies to comprise allSouth America. And of the three types of country, the coastaldesert is quite the least attractive. Such citiesas exist are merely ports for some fertile valleyback in the interior, and even these valleys arefertile only as a result of irrigation. Such aport was Paita, where we made our first posted about the ship warned passengersthat any one who went ashore would be quaran-tined afterwards for yellow fever and bubonicplague. The native pedlers who came alongsidein small boats looked pallid and sickly. Most of them were selling Panama hats, which,despite their name, are ma
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