. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . rom somescrubby bushes and flew off from the river. With the exception ofthe rain in the afternoon, it was clear and hot. Wednesday, July 20, 1892. When we woke at daybreak thismorning, our boat was just making fast to the wharf at Barran-quilla. We dressed quickly, got off our baggage, and drove aroundto Miss Hoares, where we were given very nice rooms. After we hadtaken some coffee, Alice rested whilst Cabell and I w
. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . rom somescrubby bushes and flew off from the river. With the exception ofthe rain in the afternoon, it was clear and hot. Wednesday, July 20, 1892. When we woke at daybreak thismorning, our boat was just making fast to the wharf at Barran-quilla. We dressed quickly, got off our baggage, and drove aroundto Miss Hoares, where we were given very nice rooms. After we hadtaken some coffee, Alice rested whilst Cabell and I walked aroundto the market. I bought two more jaguar-skins, — not such largeones as the one I had gotten at Honda, — and paid for them sevendollars and fifty cents in paper. I saw in the market an Indianwith a macaw of a kind that I had not seen so far. It was large, BACK TO BARBANQUILLA. 127 with scarlet and yellow the prevailing colors, the wings being largelyyellow {Ara macao). I was told that it had been caught nearBarranquilla. Later on it grew so hot that we returned to the hotel, and sataround in the shade until about four oclock, when we went out for % 3it«». CATHEDRAL AT KAKKANt^UILLA. a long drive through the town. It covers a good deal of space, butexcept the cathedral and one or two buildings near by, there areno houses of any architectural pretensions. The majority of thedwellinghouses are of mud and bamboo, thatched with rushes. Insome the mud is whitewashed, or is plastered smooth with lime, sothat from the street they appear solidly built of brick. One house 128 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. of some pretension was unique. Between each window was a largepanel in the wall, and these panels were decorated with paintings orfrescoes horribly executed, the figures of life-size and gaudily col-ored. In one of the panels was the Angelus. In the eveningwe called on Captain Bradford. It Avas clear and hot. In the courtyard of our hotel there was a little armadillo w
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