Around and about South America . ed before it occurred to the builders that it would be arather costly, not to say unnecessary, proceeding to haulgoods up and then lower them down the forty feet of bluffon which it stands. Soon after our anchor was down, a small,very wheezy, and dilapidated tug came alongside, and tookpassengers and baggage still farther up the bay, to the littlevillage of Salgar, where the present terminus of the railwayrunning to Barranquilla is built. Landing on a long woodenpier, upon which stand the freight-cars, we first had our bag-gage weighed in the station-house, all
Around and about South America . ed before it occurred to the builders that it would be arather costly, not to say unnecessary, proceeding to haulgoods up and then lower them down the forty feet of bluffon which it stands. Soon after our anchor was down, a small,very wheezy, and dilapidated tug came alongside, and tookpassengers and baggage still farther up the bay, to the littlevillage of Salgar, where the present terminus of the railwayrunning to Barranquilla is built. Landing on a long woodenpier, upon which stand the freight-cars, we first had our bag-gage weighed in the station-house, all in excess of one hun-dred kilogrammes having to be paid for later at the custom-house in Barranquilla. There are morning and afternoontrains to this town. The road led over the level, swampy,wooded delta land, where I noticed great numbers of manykinds of pelicans, cranes, flamingoes, and other at Barranquilla, I was first struck by a long row ofgreat river-boats, with their lofty double funnels, built ex-. A WEEK 0N~ THE MAGDALEN A. 427 actlj upon tlie model of those we use upon the were lying in a very narrow sort of creek, a part of theMagdalena, whose main stream might be seen in the distance,rushing past with an eight-knot current. Barrauquilla is builtupon a vast sandy plain, upon the western shore and nearthe junction of the two arms of the river. It is a town ofsmall, single-story, mud-walled, and grass-thatched huts, andcontains about twenty thousand inhabitants. Mule hackney-coaches abound, and are extremely necessary, owing not onlyto the obstacles presented by deep sand, but also to its blind-ing glare, which is very trying to the eyes. I found a verygood hotel, with large, airy rooms, and the breakfast readyon a table set in the interior corridor of the court. A num-ber of native gentlemen were chatting in the parlor, whichcontained a prim double row of rocking-chairs, placed vis-a-vis in the center of the room. These Colombi
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