The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-19
FOR SOUTH AMERICA.
The Herald Correspondent Com
mences a Long Journey.
SOME SCENES ON sHIPBoARD.
The Gay and Gallant Spanish-AmerIcans-
The Various Cranks One Encounters
Little Moving World.


respondence of THE HERALD. "A visitor
to the southern continent-and there are
more of them in these days than could once
be counted in half century-if coming
from the United States, may make his
choice among several routes. If bound fol-
the eastern coast OF South America, he
would better sail from New York by one OF
the Brazilian mail steamers to Rio Janeiro:
and at the latter port (chief city of the
newest republic under the SUM embark
ing in
SOME OTHER FLOATING PALACE
Tor Montevideo and Buenos Ayres; and
thence, if he desires, through the straits OF
Magellan and up the western side
LII wishing to visit first the western
coast, the best plan is to go via Pacific
Mail steamer to Aspinwall, and thence by
rail- across the isthmus, connecting at
Panama with some English or CHILEAN
Vessel Tor up south, as they say near the
equator.
Or, starting from any point by rail. he
may travel in Pullman car, away down
Snrough Mexico. TO Vera Cruz, and sail
from that fever-haunted old town across
Inc gull and into the caribbean sea: or
from San Francisco by ocean and the aid of
1ne..Panama railway, he may as easily reach
any port of South America In vulgar
pIrase- lie pays his money and he takes
ms cholcen-according to the amount of
tpcre and length of leisure he NAV have at
command.
1t must be remembered however, that
South America
THE SEASONS ARE TIA REVERSE
OF ours and that the rainy time for whose
sudden 1umn from 70
man can account, should be Gre
1uliy avoided In point of health. climate
ana convenience in travelling the western
side OF the lower continent is greatly to he
preferred during the season of our north
ern winter and the eastern coast during our
summer months. For example, though
Panama may be visited with comparative
lmpunlty as early as October many of the
venezuelan ports, only a little farther to
the eastward, are totally inaccessible. on
account of yellow fever, fan into De
cember. The rainy season alongj the 18TH
mus is now nearly over: but down in the
United States of Colombia-to which re
hnents properly beiongs-tne floods are
still descending and the roads practi
cally impossible.
IN ECUADOR,
the division next below Colombia. the
rainy season has just now fairly begun.
making it unwise for the traveller to ven
Gure far into the interior. lest he be com
PEELED to remain there for months to come
As is well known, not drop of rain ever
1alls along the greater portion of the coast
OF Peru, while in the southwestern interior
OF that republic the windows of heaven are
opened near the middle of December. In
Bolivia the rains begin about the lst of
January, and in Chill some time later, By
n0St1np himself wall hafora1ond
vagaries Of the weather which, in differ
ntlocalities vary scarcely day from year
10 year, he may have sunshine during all
mis- stay in South America and avoid all
extremes of heat or cold, dust or damp
ness.
Therefore, if leaving the United States
IN autumn, the very best way is to sail
from New York via the Pacific Mail line
purchasing ticket to Panama only
By the way, are you aware that one may
Journey from New York to San Francisco
by this same Pacific Mail, down one ocean
and up the otter, much cheaper and in
more comfortable fashion than by rail. To
be sure the wide detour occupies whole
month, but it Is
THIRTY-Two DAYS OF DELIGHT,
including the railway ride across the 18TH
mus and many stops on the western coasts
of Central America and Mexico And,
strange to say, while passengers to Panama
pay Slc0 for first class ticket, journey OF
nine days from New York, those all the
way around to San Francisco pay only $50
food and all expenses included. OF
course the moving cause for this great dis
crepancy in price is competition with the
railroads, and it could not be kept up were
it not for the freight and mail service, with
out encrn Gus loss to the comp any.
What better escape from the rigors of a
49,, FL
for summer time can be imagined than the
sixty-forr days at sea on this round trip
And the glimpses of tropical scenes and
strange cities, shadowy mountain chains
and distant volcanoes, and the grandeur OF
two mighty oceans, are things long to be
remembered.
On bright but chilly November Friday
your correspondent found herself fioatins
slowly away from Pier As,
SORT OF FEMALE COLUMBUS,
seeking an unknown world. Have YOU
experienced that singular feeling which
possesses one when first on board shiI
about to start on long, long voyage? You
are like the imam without country" be
longing no longer to your native land
although you have not yet left it. You
stand between the future and the past
without present; and as the home shores
fade away, the most hardened traveller
wonders if he will see them again.
Ours was the usual experience With
engines at half speed we paid dutiful res
pect to the tall brown goddess in the har
Dor; passed the narrows and entered the
lower bay: and when the outer bar was
safely crossed, the pilot with pockets
crammed full of letters and memory
charged with innumerable last messages
clambered down into his skiff and was
rowed away to Sandy Hook And then, a.
tho cnrfinu how 70
ward aud dashing the salt spray, like tears
from her prov, began her work in earnest
Our little moving wor d, isolated from
the rest OF the hun al family in a gra,
waste Of waters, is as polyglot collection
as that which accompanied
NOAH ON HIS EARLY EXPEDITIONS.
The majority are citizens of the Unite,
States, bound for Frisco Englishme,
come next in numerical strength; then Ger
mans. Jews, F,renchmen, Italians ant
Spanish Americans, the latter mostly en-
gagged in business on the isthmus; but no
half dozen outside our own patty WI,
are en- route to the southern continent. A
our small clique includes a newly -fedget
American minister Ito Bolivia, an extr.
flag floats from the main mast; and by ant
by, when we find ourselves under the pro
lection of foreign flags, on another ocean
the stars and stripes, still flung to tn
breeze, signalling the fact that represen
tative of Gods country is on board, will
be answered by a general hosting of flag
on shore. So much for the dignity of INCL
Samuel. Though he has 20 trade to boas
of south of his own domain, nor much O.
the love and confidence of his South-Amer
lean cousins, the latter yet cherish
Wholesome respect for his prowess OF
land and sea.
Those mid ocean cranks, with whose Id