Sight-seeing in South America . JJy Hud iri,.-<lii,i,l Young Cocoanut Palms Carriages with colored coachmen wearing the formalhigh silk hat, which looked curious in the tropics, wereat the dock awaiting our arrival, and we were drivenaround the city, and out a good country road, following. 22 Sight-Seeing in South America a winding stream, and amid tropical vegetation to Mara-val Reservoir. This furnishes the water ^upply for thecity. At the reservoir was a fine collc^-tion of orchids,the rarest of which was the very striking butterfly orchid,which closely resembles in form ad color a brill
Sight-seeing in South America . JJy Hud iri,.-<lii,i,l Young Cocoanut Palms Carriages with colored coachmen wearing the formalhigh silk hat, which looked curious in the tropics, wereat the dock awaiting our arrival, and we were drivenaround the city, and out a good country road, following. 22 Sight-Seeing in South America a winding stream, and amid tropical vegetation to Mara-val Reservoir. This furnishes the water ^upply for thecity. At the reservoir was a fine collc^-tion of orchids,the rarest of which was the very striking butterfly orchid,which closely resembles in form ad color a brillianttropical butterfly. On our return we stopped at the Botanical Garden, atthe entrance of which are the well-kept grounds and thestately mansion of the governor of the island. Thespecial features of the Botanical Garden are the tropicaltrees of many varieties, including the orange, lemon,banana, bread-fruit, coffee, the camphor tree, whichsmells and tastes like camphor when the leaf is crushed,and all sorts of stately bamboos and palms. One hardlyknows when he leaves the Botanical Garden, for there issuch a brilliant tropical vegetation everywhere that to onewho has come but recently from the frozen, snow-cov-ered north, the whole island looks like a gorgeous garden. We lunched on t
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