. Review of reviews and world's work. undland coast, and often aredriven ashore there, with serious loss of life, orin driving through the ice-cumbered ocean theyare at times forced bodily under by the strengthof the tempest with which they battle. With the thermometer away below zero, theirsails freeze solid as plates of steel, their cordage-gets rigid as bars of iron, their decks are thicklycoated with gelid spray, and the crews have tocover their faces with flannel masks to withstandthe stinging hail. In this guise the little craftsbuffet their way along, now and again beingswept by the wav
. Review of reviews and world's work. undland coast, and often aredriven ashore there, with serious loss of life, orin driving through the ice-cumbered ocean theyare at times forced bodily under by the strengthof the tempest with which they battle. With the thermometer away below zero, theirsails freeze solid as plates of steel, their cordage-gets rigid as bars of iron, their decks are thicklycoated with gelid spray, and the crews have tocover their faces with flannel masks to withstandthe stinging hail. In this guise the little craftsbuffet their way along, now and again beingswept by the waves and occasionally a man ortwo washed overboard, while the list of vesselswrecked in this venture, many of them with allhands, would exhaust a page of this are crushed in the ice, others are drivenon the rocks, more founder beyond mishap to a vessel in winter in these watersmeans certain death, and the bederoll of the lostis perhaps the best tribute to the courage ofthose who still pursue the LONO LINKS t)l FISH DUYINU ON THE RACKS, THE NEW ERA IN COLOMBIA. BY FRANCIS P. SAVINIEN.(Mr. Savinien writes from Yeguas, near Bogota.) THE United States of Colombia has enteredupon an era of peace and progress. TheColombian army has become a body of are converted into sappers and employedin building or improving ways of , as well as agitation, is beginning to re-ceive general condemnation. It is true thatthere is little liberty. There is, however, lesspersecution than formerly. Journals are abjectand individuals mute. There is no free speechor press. But there are few persons in prisonor exile for political reasons. The policy of thegovernment has become that of abstention ratherthan restraint. By judicious, if not generous, action. Presi-dent Rafael Reyes has succeeded in harmoniz-ing nearly all elements of the population. Hisadministration is neither Liberal nor Conserva-tive. It is Nationalist. Placed in
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