. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . arm to swell so much that he had to be taken on shore at Panamaand be put in hospital. No one would venture to approach the box with theparent snake. The plug was knocked out of the bottom of the boat and it was TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES. chap. i. On December 13 we received advice that our animals wereready, and left Guayaquil the same afternoon on board theriver-steamer Quito, with a large and very miscellaneous freight,1 and arrived about midnightat Bodegas. Opposite toGuayaquil the Guayas is anoble river, more than amile and a quarter
. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . arm to swell so much that he had to be taken on shore at Panamaand be put in hospital. No one would venture to approach the box with theparent snake. The plug was knocked out of the bottom of the boat and it was TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES. chap. i. On December 13 we received advice that our animals wereready, and left Guayaquil the same afternoon on board theriver-steamer Quito, with a large and very miscellaneous freight,1 and arrived about midnightat Bodegas. Opposite toGuayaquil the Guayas is anoble river, more than amile and a quarter across,with good depth of is joined just above thetown by its principal tribu-tary, the River Daule, andbeyond the junction, thoughremaining fully a mile wide,it becomes shallow. At adistance of about thirteenmiles of Guayaquilit receives the waters of an-other important tributary,the River Yaguachi, a streamwhich is formed by the union of the Chimbo and their upper courses, these rivers are only mountain torrents—. A YOUNG lKKSON OF GUAYAQUIL. lowered into the sea. The box floated away and drifted on to Flamenco I., offPanama, where some residents fired through and through it until the snake waskilled. Mr. Chambers subsequently received a special request not to ship anymore passengers of that class. i The war in Peru caused an exodus of Italian organs from Lima, and thirtyrefugee instruments landed at Guayaquil just before our arrival. Four of thesewere on board the Quito, concentrated on the fore part of the upper deck, eachplaying a different tune. The Ecuadorians enjoyed the babel, but the alligatorsin the river seemed more sensitive. They came up and stared with open mouths,and plunged down again immediately, out of hearing. The Guayas and its tributaries are full of alligators. On a trip up the river inJuly, 1880, I saw a large sandbank completely covered by a horde of them, lyingpeaceably alongside each other. The natives do not seem to be
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