The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-28
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U. S. SHIr OMAHA,
SoUTu PACIFIC STATIoN.)
Friends at Home Il wish to give you a
little account of somo of the different
places of South America, and the manners
and customs of the people. Hoping to
imuse you will begin with
PANAMA.
This is an old tumbled down city, hardly
fit for white man to live in. There is
but one respectable building in the place
and that ia the Central hotel.
AS you land on the beach, if it is low
tide you have either to make ashore about
half mile through the mnd sharn sinnas
and old broken bottles, or be carried ashore
n a mans back, and stand the chance of
lis falling down and Dumping you into
he water.
Passing through the streets, If streets
you can call them, for they are only about
feet wide. you zee nothing but old mud
lu-es only wanting :. push To send them
an hllt' i|-f. n httlt way nun TUT
ndiog there IL u large square called the
l,rkei pl ice, and at early morning aud in
tvrniu e it Is Gro" ded with Old women
ling tIui and cakes.
l rams only about twenty times day
leyc, 50 you can give slight guess how
ny the earth must be. The people of this
lace are composed of negroes from ia
81 e III IA A
/ ans.
Tnele is small island in the bay called
Dead Mans island; there are about two
undTed persons buried off men-of-war.
some of the graves have stones and some
nave wooden crosses, but the majority of
hem have nothing to mark the place where
person is buried.
Panama is very unhealthy place; there
is good deal of fever and ague here, and
on board while we laid there, there were
no less than forty or fifty on the sick list
all the time a person that is not used to
he climate is sure to be sick il they stay
on shore over night.
There Is plenty of fruit, such as bana-
mas, oranges, alligator pears, puney-apples,
mangoes, cocoanuts, pine-apples, and cher
riemons. We left this delightful place
on the 2Sth of November for
PITA.
How this place came to have q name |
cannot tell tor ii is the dirtiest hole that
ever raw. / mt ON shore, on liberty,
here, and had good chance to view the
country. For miles and miles around there
| is nothing to be seen but sand, not green
thing as big as pin; when you walk
| through the town you sink into the sand
| up to your ankles.
| hired mule and rode out into the
country about fifteen miles, in hopes to see
something like home, but rode back in dis
| gust. We stayed here about four weeks,
giving liberty and painting ship, then
| sailed for
oALLAo.
We arrived here on the first day of jan
uary. This is very nice place, some-
thing like civilization; there is very nice
stone mole for boats to land, and it 10 divi-
| ded into four different landings, enc for
men of war boats, one for steamer boats,
| one for merchant boats, and still another
for shore boats.
AS you pass up into the town, there are
large stone and brick building on all sides.
The streets are all well paved with brick,
stone, or concrete pavement There are
| plenty of nice hotels and eating houses,
where one can get as good meal as at
home. There are two railroads running to
Lima. One Is an English road of long
standing, the other is an American road,
and has not been running over six months,
but is doing very well. l have been to
Lima several times, and | think 1t is a
beautiful city. 1t equals great many of
our cities at home. The streets are well
paved, and are very clean, no dust or dirt
| flying about as one would suppose in a
| country where 1t never rains. / visited the
Public garden aud found it very fine.
There we're beasts and birds from all parts
of the world also every species of flow.
ers one can think of. To take look
around the hsrbor here, and see the hun.
dreds of ships of all nations, both men Of
war and merchant ships, it would surprise
you-almost every flag under the sun. We
left here on the Goth Of January tor
VALPARAISO.
This city is as far superior to Callso Of
New York is to Burlington, the buildings
are much better, and the streets are better
laid out. There are street cars running
f ON one end OF the city TO the other, and
rid ~ through The city one will ace stores
as ii G IN appearance as IN New York, The