The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-08
A DRUMMER IN ARGENTINA.
4 NTEAMBOAT TRIP ar AND DOWN
THE PARaNA nIVER on BUSINESS.
The UnswnIlowlike Goiondrina n.-Her
Wonderful Capacity bella visia's Alert
Customs Differentiated Life In LIN Pnx
Getting Back 10 Buenos Ayres Aggin.

Tn. Unswnllowike Golondrina II.-Her
Wonderful Capacity B~iia visiR's Alert
Customs O~nic~rs-Hote Life In LIN Pnx
Getting Back 10 Buenos Ayres Agsin.
BvENos AyREs, Feb. "a -Golondrina II.
Is the name Of the clipper Of the Parana fleet
She doesn't look like a swallow In the least, but
she isn't wholly bad VIVA, the original Colon
drina was like one need no, seek 20 know "
for 40 .. she IL Glasgow built, ten years old
has accommodations for sixty first class passen-
gers, and only the captain and priser kno" Tor
how many second.cla~S passengers, * III by ele'-
tricity, and has a good cook. So altogether she
Is pretty good In her way She left Buenos Ayres
at 4 one night, To sail from Rosario at 4 the next
afternoon. and 10 save time. We came up by train.
The Golondrina, however, didn't appear until
10 o'clock. and as there was a lot Of cargo to he
discharged, We didn't get away until late In the
night. Having got away, a fog came up, and
We spent the rest Of the night at anchor not far
out The Toys were very dense on the rlVer'
and when a really good article comes up naviga-
ton IL utterly impossible.
our frs, port Of call was Daman,e, some SIXTY
miles above Rosario, and this we reached aboN
shutdown There was nothing much To see, q
barge anchored in the stream, what they call q
ponton here, the relic Of some ancient mariner
that had seen better days, and had finally come 10
rest its old timbers in this out of the way place.
We dropped about three parcels Of goods and
some two or three passengers, and then turned
\ about, and running down stream again. soon
\ got into the current and headed north. Dinner
seemed 90 warm up the people and we had more
or less fun, a concert with some good singing,
a few stories. q few card parties struggling with
a game called tribuoo, So the evening passed
We were due at Parana, the capital Of the province
of Entire Rios. at about 9 in the morning, and when
! the stewards came to wake us up the question was,
| when should We arrive, but man proposes and the
river disposes in that latitude, and we had been hard
and fast aground all night, so that We did not
| reach the landing until we'll on In the afternoon.
All this portion Of the river il filed with islands,
small and large, and the channel winds among
them, the islands are very low and when the SHOWS
melt in the Andes a great volume OF water comes
down the Bermeio, rloomayo and other tributary
streams and floods them so that there are but
few that are inhabited There seen 20 he pracu'
! cally no life on them; there Is a small amount OF
wood cut on thsm for making charcoal, but the
trade is a small matter
Parana can be seen for some time before II is
reached; the city lies on a hill in a bend Of the
river so that We made three-quarters Of q turn
before reaching the landing place, and then on
! account OF the shadows We lay some two miles
of from the shore. The Entire Rios Railway
Company has a very good wharf With a tram line
| and deep water nearer the city. but there has been
some trouble between the railway and the naviga-
tion company and none OF the steamers nes UP 70
Wv -. I'D noods and hafor.
we iahded our p"Ss'nse'o onu s"r w
=. i - -z-fa - 49,
- ii !, ,ooL.a far r,o,,i.r
III up D! '"e sewing sun andn 'Ne p'''1'
/. poz was made in the early morning. |,
srao, ,hs ,owr snr,s dis,,nce from
was the same es1ec'' the 'o"h s"rne dis.ahVo non
49,, =, ,ha MI .rd oonpsc,ea With a nv , nlont
r"' ,, '"o oonA a'' ~
walk In more or less nasty conolloh iof waking
hdr.n.r c,,s,oms nicer Nor ali these small
Nuuan" VI o,.S. - nr.r.r, smrrnmnn
ports have custom huuS ~sH r so pr ,hTes ssiIn,s
belonging " the customs. ana on tneshore a cao
or two
the water is extremely shallow round ahou, i, we
Law some four miles of In the centre OF the stream.
Two tugs wore whihng ~ MS As wen as Ihc ilEht'f'
AZ W. had considerable cargo 70 olscharge, when
ever the steamer stopped Ohcr" was always some
one who turned up with a hshing line tsquina
was n eNnplon. So'at nohe oi we IsUPtnrn
had been successful, out IN oneo OF he 500 poaS
which lay nlonSsiiN OF me fram"r' ther was >
most magnificent fish caught While waiting loI
the steamer The owner ol the h%h was OCCUPIED
with his passenger me tmphu,n wa, sTeh
no fresh fish had been eaten on boau Mnce irnvng
Rosario, AID here was Sllt'lcient Iof MI We IflsSen
gers. A linz wns, genly droplnd over inc N9e
into III" bont AMI thr ush was cough W. peopc
pulled the hshl IN, hutl' WAS saieIy innorn on ,he
after deck we lay very dutr' unuL uut nnrW,l
was up, ,And We wore on hetlnI ora .n-h VIZ oook
was called and explicit dIrcunns "e~ gwen MS
To how the fish, should he cooked
About the only pincr wher the Ilyerrs ouoved
Is the pass of MAI Aongoi hot Int lnoIn rsuuinhs,
as there arr no hght on the snorr nnu as ,a Iass
u a very, nhl onN ~ CnpunII, """s. Inr"r
r. pass this, point ny faylgh" SO AZ 10 nnv' me
AID o' the hee OF lout DuovS We nu'i"u on
therefore, with iil seom ancad 70 W. "rohgh
oetor" night ana wer succrSS,ui. a.,
suppose MAJ we were nyhin ng1ouna NAV
night as we di mol haen irIa NIs'a un'I ln,c
~ w" a'hrnonn, ~" ri'rI U1umrN WI. pF,,s
along mere hgh chls OF coy snnne quise MN"
some qrlt' yellow and f'mtnnihs one OF .he
cha'k ciihs OF OLD tneIanu i,ha ,,+nas name
beh'sl,, as 'herr "ns pr'oi2Is wv .ua' MnNpl"
about the whole phc" fer nHaih we IAI q
p.,nto1. aud the boat rome WtIiIh t"ehiy irel
~ N" shor"; but as 'nerr Is a ooaIn,nn VINO ms
laid me ooTernmeht a cpr'ain sum ,ot w nem'
10 lana passengers We WI nos au'"'i .o"aih
ashore over IN ponton ana GOVT VI" y ahh bu'