New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-09
NEW.GRENADA.
-Four Days at Teauendauaa.

N, Falls Of TeqpepdarDa volcano civil war and an
esrthapshe OF the two last see DO symptoms do
no, expect to volcano in eruption; mua there-
1ore roske The m0si Of the Bridge and the Falls.
his hard days ride from Bogots to the Fails and
bach Come spend night In the vicinity, and thus
employ two dsys ! wished TO do more, and aYaied
myseH Of the permission of Don Manuel Utnsna 70
mike the hacienda Of Tequsndsma my home for a Jew
asys,
dbs,y nnade all my preparations for bringing
.,v resSence IN Bopota 20 q close on the 1tn inst
ovn felt regror q, leaving the kind family with whom
lbsd been boarding for two months. They had been
hind NO. rom interest They had bumored my whims,
and especially my xplicabe aversion 70 advenrtous
atrers in my food Lserly they had washed the butter
and pulled our its hars and would even have attempted
10 rick out The specks had not the impossoty Of the
undertaking been palpable They use here ayelow
root to color their soups rce meat vegetables and In
short everything they cook La SeDora converted an
iusinuaton Of mine into Spanish compound noun
equivalent 10 coUer dirt and dismissed il from the table
Re would have done the by the onions but az che
souo not be oil the time in the kitchen she found i'm
possible On my setting out nothing that could be done
Tor my comfort was omitted
yset out with horse two baggage mules and peon
keaving the latter was alone again the vast
prarie of Boeota.
Two months daily rain had made less difference
sAan had expected. The color bad improved, but
was not as besstifn spring spreads fields
bng covered with snow. The road was carriage
road, but not so remarkably good as that toward
Honda Az Ijourneeyd south the hills seen
far distant on my left Leaving siength, the small VII
hge of suachs, found myself Of the plain,
having also hills on my right Between the fra: and
second Of these rising mist marked the fsls. Disre
sardng this had stl 10 pursue my way to the soath
Nll afW mile ortwo entered the great gate Of the
plnntation and took course consonsnt with my
wishes.
Several small plows, without mold boards such az
you nnd In the Bible Dictionary, were scratching up
nc Yich black soil and were laying stone
wsn substantial enough for the foundation Of house
Before me WIS the mansion, now deserted, OF the
hmily and bid In hollow by its side were a saw mill,
. quiline factory and the houses Of some dependant
fnmihes
The director q an intelligent French chemist,
domiciled was told with countrywornan Of mine
Hound her Of pure African blood and very favorable
specimen of her race She bore in youth the Of
Joanna jackson, and thirteen years ago had mother
nyipg in Hayerstraw, to whom she sal she would
gladly send hundred two of dollars II she knew
che was living She said that when she left tho people
were talking of voting for General Jackson aud Mr.
Van Buren,, but she conjectures the General must be
dead by this time. In the interim she has been
Ireland, England Germany and Russia, as a servant,
and Is now lady In New Granada, and has her white
servant Ofthe two persons who can make qunine ON
shrge large scale In New. Grenada, sheis one.
At length my baggage arrived and the large parlor Of
The mansion thrown open to its reception. The
poom contained four sofas, dozen chairs and three
n.
soor In a corner, and after taking chid's toymug
fall Of chocolate with bread and sweetmests was leh
% repose.
Amer an early cup of chocolate in the morning = sal
Ned forth To understand my course, you must under
stand that of the river n had been creeping along the
plain at my right altogether unsupported by me, n
reached the hacienda There found il entering mar.
row gorge of the basin rim of the plain of Bogota
where a quarter OF mile O.: dam would again convert
the plain A. has been In former ages into lake ~
hrge as Lake Champlan II had approached the gorge
ky course for many miles of almost exactly south O.
7oW) Here the little milstresm, coming Up the
arm of the plain mingies Its dark waters with the ya
low tide Of the Bogota and they that instant she
gorge There IL heard for the first time in ia
he murmuring of the Bogota. With its character it
changes lie course For half mile II flows almost west
O. go W. Here my gold pen has taken leave forever
Of it, point have whitfield the gold and shsrpenedo
strick, and proceed with my riverl Again IL makes
another turn and for perhaps q mlesN w. a. So W.
Here as 1t enters the forest takes another turn al
most N. Q7o W. so that, after doubling the hill is
aews almost to the contrary direction to tina, 10 had in
che plain.
At the gorge has already fallen below the surface
Of the plain perhaps 10 feet and seems to have been
struggling vainly with its dessoy for straight line Of
mile cuts its bed eigh, times The road took along
h bank rises the first point of the HILL giving
kae view Of the plain then descend to where the
river, AFTER moments respite, is again roaring and
PluDging nj right. All, poor river that Yesterday
flowed seniy between benks of green, chahug
with rugged ess and huge boulders hasten to thy
doom.
Our road lie still carriage road We open gates and
pass bare till lose sight Of the river enter the
forest We forget H. too in the uuwonted scene. All
che vicinity Of Bogots has been stripped Of its
not one Is left The untraveled children Of Bogota
have never seen large tree A few Willows sun.
aowers &C. here have the of trees but few have
a diameter OF ak inches. Our road explains
itself In the ledge on the len is stratram of coal
nearly two feet thick and Of good quality, ts side
Of the river Sill nothing ia Of the cataract till
we are even past H. when the river is seen pouring
down into gulph that yswDs among the trees. Is
near US; but to desceld is no small task Take your
machcte, "a kniSe intermediate between carving
knife and 4 scythe. and used Tor BOTH and proceed
with caution Avoid five things do net cot in such
direction that when your mschete has cut vine IL
shall terminate discourse in your thigh setnerle your
LEFT hand intervene between the blow and the Oh
ject; DO not cut yourself IN falling. fal sinsi
stick thai you have Just shsrpeoed by an oblque cut
neither Gu, Sbent shrub when it can retort the comph'
nent by knocking yor over in strengthening
But Me snakes the deadly snakes o; South Amerca
have seen live snake in the country. nor but one
aesd one See what have my feet-no stockings,
t0ots nor shoes but aPargstas sort Of sandals made
~ sewing stout cord into for sols. the toes
b. barely covered with finer work above They
cost scsn, fifteen cents. For walking they are ncom
rSsoslc bat must must confess they would be brs
shsst protection against Of the venomous snakes
which universally SAID to sboand in parts Of
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