The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-09

houses, roofs and furniture are made from
IL, ana In many instances it answers ais
Tor food and drink. Children are born nm
der It's shadow, Graded in its leaves. reare
on Its fruit and sap, clothed in its wove
nnres, ana finally go to the last sleep in
coffin made of Its bark.
e The railway villages are all ponulate
with blacks,
JOLLY SET OF CREATURES.
who exhibit wide expanse of ivory. an,
cneer the train as it passes Most of then
= a are nal-1nsaKed, some entirely so. We saw
. tnree half grown girls, black as ebony An,
entirely nude, disporting themselves in
cascade close by the wayside, who waved
g tnelr hands at US in cheerful salutation
unembarrassed by the attention they AT.
tracted from the crowded train. A younf
woman, naked to the waist, her lowe
hmoS partially covered with a short skirt
sat playing with her babe on doorsten
There were old women wearing onlv tie
scanty whlte garment not unusually men.
Uionea IN poilte society, and children. whose
name was legion, enjoying life to the nj
atty. oA O'on
Ihe houses are mostly of palm trunks
anu via bamboo, matched with shredded
palm leaves. A few, more substantiaI!v
bullt OF wood, now deserted, were proba,
D1y Inc residences of canal overseers
Nearly every village has its little .sstore >;
containing small stocks of groceries
liquors, tobacco. soap, candles and the
cneapest dry goods, but apparently with no
patrons. Every now and then we saw a
negro ponceman perambulating his beat.
bare footed and in short white trouseIs'
armed with rife, sword and brace of
pistols. At every station men and women
scampered through the train. OFFERING
cakes, like brick-bats, to the hungry mas
Sengers, drinks of various kinds. tall. cone.
IKE cups made OF cocoanut fibre, paper
ians Win advertisements printed on them
sue; as scouts Emulsion,n or s'Little
Liver Pills"-evidently intended for oratl
ultous dlstr, button hut which readily sold
IN This sweltering heat at from 25 cents IN
oO cents each-anything to turn an honest
| penny. Aono'0
linen on we rush again, deeper and
deeper INTO the jungles-greenness bloom
anu beauty everywhere, fragrance and
species make the forest ring with their mn
musical cries. We saw hummino birds of
gorgeous hues, -
SCARCELY BIGGER THAN BEES
and great toucans whose ugly beaks seem
especially designed for the gobblinp of
tropical fruits. Tapirs abound in the
1arshes, and we are told that their flesh |
WHEN greatly resembles pork, is relished
ny .ie natives as vel! as coon In Kentucky. |
Ihere is also the wild hog, or peccarv Ia |
distant relative Of the tapir). which is |
hunted for food, as well as the monl-ays
.,ab mock lsthmlan humanity and prowl
tne forest IN troops. There are ant eaters
LOO, ana deer, cougars and tiger-cats. Roa
constrlctors and other big snakes are mot
III nCSo ', out are not nearly so much to
s Oo uleaueu as the tiny asps and vipers.
some not longer than your finger. and the
exact color of the dead leaves or bits of
moss under which they hide.
Iuefe are lizards without number sorne
whose bite Is deadly-from Shiny reptiles
Two or three inches in length, milk white
sleen 0r coral, to scaly six foot-long igua.
nas, whose hesh is considered the greatest
puostoie 0elicacy, next to the juicy white
breast OF roasted baby-monkev. Rv the
way, The eggs of the iguana NAV be fonnd
lTr sac IN many of the markets of Span
sn,A America, and command high price
" course, there are scorpions. cent?
peoes, tarantulas, ct al, for which we are
. xarheo TO Keep sharp lookout. even in
,ne cars out they are not circumstance {
,umpareo 70 the wicked fiea,'' with which !
very grain OF sand and particle of dust is I
oaded They are too tiny to be looked ont t
VI, out every one of US is living and t
pecAIed monument Of their persistent in 6
lustry. Even smaller than the fiea ond t
more ehterprising in pursuit of business is r
THE JIGGER, b
Fhose native name is chigoe. of which T
ave seen several interesting specimens r
Ut. happily, on somebody else So very t
my IS the pestiferous little wretch that he h
an crowd In where angels fear to tread ), b.
VI Instance, between the seams of youi "
n IA
our shoe. He entertains an especia, FL
ondness for the human foot. and win in
arlaply conflne himself to that part of
our anatomy if you give him q chance
o oellcate is his football, and so slight his
ting, that you scarcely feel it: vet. ali the 81
anne, ne gets in his work, depositing an N
,unlCeslnal egg beneath toe-nail, or
; ;as. under the CUTS. Presently
lght itching ensues, and in day or two
emoranous sac is formed, which mnst at
ace be pierced deep with a needle. and
forwards thoroughly washed with
oacco juice. If the sac is allowed tn re-
am, huge ulcer forms, and the victim is
kelly TO Lose his toes; for the infant iieper
al issued from the first egg is a most q
t,onn' propagator, capable of raising 81
Veral interesting families and BECOMING 81
maze and hearty grandmother in a .ort- II
gifts time. IA
among other sights along the line of the q;
tnmlan railway, we were shown the cot Es
ge occupied by Mr.. John z. STEPHENS N
e Weil-known author and traveller. during 81
Drlet connection with the road: and al
SO gigantlc tree, the largest in all this u
ctlon under whose shade he frequently T5
rote or rested; and which is still Know III
and wide, as Stephens trees -
art oi tne way winds along the low a.
,untalns that form the backbone of the *
Inmus, none of them more than :. 900 feet Ss
nelght 1t is said that Balboa. in the rs
ar !ol!, caught his first glimpse of the %
.clnc from the summit of one of them
that he fell upon his knees at the sight
enat mighty ocean. Most celebrated of
IN local annals is the
CERRo DE Los BUoANERos.
hlil OF tue buccaneers, from whose ton
pirate Morgan, had his first view of
;lent Panama, and at whose base he en-
nped the night before his attack upon
u clty-lust 221 years ago AS that old
le buccaneer played so important a part To
the lsthmus-at one time nearly denon-
ting it, having DESTROYED the prondee+ Fal
Y In all the Spanish colonies. whose fail
re rise TO the Panama of to- day-perhaps list
nay De well to recount few of his ex
us. For partial compilation thereof Pal
are mainly indebted to Mr. Thomas w,
OK and his inimitable ''Boy Travellers, cel'
minors OF the abundance of gold in the H.
World, which reached Spain after the iio'
;oVery OF America, led to the CONQUEST If 7
settlement OF the West Indies, and also
ne main land for considerable portion Il
tn and south Of the isthmus. Within CA
nall century following the first voyage
Columbus. scores of Spanish colonies
re planted, forts garrisoned by great
noers OF soldiers, and many ship loads
reasure sent to the king. The cruel