. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. the Chubut is a colony of Welsh people who havebeen here for many years. Think of it, a short rail-way ride, then a neat Welsh village, embowered intrees and flowers, a beautiful green valley withsweet-smelling alfalfa meadows and orchards hang-ing full of yellow and red apples. I am impatientto get over, but the train does not run today. Wecan know when they mean to run the train, becausethey will run up a flag on a mast by the tiny am now in the latitude of Buffalo, N. Y. It seemsgood to get in familiar la
. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. the Chubut is a colony of Welsh people who havebeen here for many years. Think of it, a short rail-way ride, then a neat Welsh village, embowered intrees and flowers, a beautiful green valley withsweet-smelling alfalfa meadows and orchards hang-ing full of yellow and red apples. I am impatientto get over, but the train does not run today. Wecan know when they mean to run the train, becausethey will run up a flag on a mast by the tiny am now in the latitude of Buffalo, N. Y. It seemsgood to get in familiar latitudes again. In a tiny fruit shop I found splendid grapes 122 IN FOREIGN FIELDS from Chubut; they are like those of California—big, black, meaty grapes. Flies! More flies! Howhomelike it all is. I do not recall seeing a fly inthe South. The town waterworks is a curious con-trivance. Men take barrels and run rods throughtheir heads to form an axle, then attach shafts andwith ponies roll the barrels through the source of supply is a well and windmill, a good. PANORAMA OF PUERTO MADRYN, North American Aermotor mill, in the Dr. Eichlet met his seiiora and his little seiiora is a strikingly handsome woman. To-gether we walked in the evening on the beach whichwas strewn with pretty shells. I learned that Icould understand the sehoras Spanish very muchbetter than I could the doctors. It is a proverbvery trite and true that if you would learn a Ian- TRAVEL SKETCHES BY JOS. E. WING 123 guage a woman must teach it to you, but he wouldbe a daring man who would presume to learn muchof it from the senora of a South American. How-ever, the doctor has been very kind. He knows thehabits of the English-speaking people, and how weare proud of our wives and glad to exhibit them toour friends, and to have them appreciated. It isnot so in South America, where one may know a
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