. 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 . 6 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. Upon looking- into the matter, we found that there were threepractical routes from New York to Savanilla (now Puerto Colombia),the seaport town for the interior of Colombia. First, there was theAtlas Line, running to Savanilla, but touching at various ports inSan Domingo, and thus stringing out the voyage to fourteen days;secondly, the Pacific Mail Steamship Companys Line to Colon, on. T
. 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 . 6 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. Upon looking- into the matter, we found that there were threepractical routes from New York to Savanilla (now Puerto Colombia),the seaport town for the interior of Colombia. First, there was theAtlas Line, running to Savanilla, but touching at various ports inSan Domingo, and thus stringing out the voyage to fourteen days;secondly, the Pacific Mail Steamship Companys Line to Colon, on. THE VENEZUELA. the Isthmus of Panama, in eight days, and from there three or foursteamers per month to Savanilla ; and, thirdly, the Red D Lineto Venezuelan ports, touching at the island of Curagao on the sixthday out, and from this island various steamers of the English andGerman lines touching at Savanilla. The greatest delay that wemight have at Curagao would be a week, Avhilst, on the other hand,we might make close connection, and for this reason we selected thelast route. We finally engaged our staterooms on the S. S. Vene-zuela, sailing Saturday, June 11. I remember now with what feelings of delight I opened the letterfrom the steamship company, drew out the tags marked passen-p-ers bao-oap-e, S. S. Venezuela, Curacao, and fastened them to THE VOYAGE. 7 our trunks. Our longed-for trip was finally assuming a tangibleform. It must not be supposed that our preparations progressed withoutopposition ; our friends all protested when they learned that Avewere going to South America in
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