The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-12-26
NEW YORK TO BoGorA
A Maine Boys Trip to the South Ami
Capital. Perched High the .nL+s.
it Feels to Ride Straight Up and ID
the Back of An "Ornerv" Mule.

it Feels to Ride Straight Up and ID
the Back of An "Ornerv" Mule.
BoGoTA, COLOMBIA, Sept. %, Il
My dear .Katherine:-I have be1
tending to write you for some
las | have thought that as the \
kColombia is in some respects a
one few of its details might be
terest. From New York to Cartl
the journey was a very pleasal
After that, the Deluge. We
pleasant, though uneventful, I
to Jamaica, passing San Saliva
the fourth day out, Cape Ma
the extreme eastern end of CD
the fifth day and reaching King;
the morning of the sixth. The
,tbe steamer on which I sailed
Kingston three days, thus afford
opportunity of seeing something
maica. In addition to "seei
sights of Kingston l made a
to Linstead in the Bog Walk
for the purpose Of making a VI
typical Jamaica "pen" Tor pla
in company with an AmericaI
become acquainted with on
from New York. l enjoyed thu
Jamaica very much. To me
long jump from New York to 4
as / had never visited the tropic
From Kingston we sailed fol
lila, run of 80 hours down ad
Caribbean Sea, and which we b
pllshed without sight of land ]
though from New York to
we had sighted several vesse u
every day. We lay at Savan1 Pol
of Colombia) two days and l &C
vintage OF tire opportunity thu fore
ed to go over to Barrangvilla ate
en the Magdalena river, som tee
miles from its mouth. 1t is md.
lot, unhealthy town and | ws I'd t
let the afternoon train back val
fla and enjoy the cool bree4 til
Fatibbean once more. Tho {
Which we lay in Savanilla is Ply
mile long-the second longe tt
world. One has only to wa hol
and back in order to have al etit
for breakfast. From Savanil sal
Ill to Carthagena, a run of 81
hours. We were fortunate lvif
made this trip by daylight as has
full view of the Colombian a
the way. We arrived in C8ger
too late to pass the customsHad
spend another night aboarh, {
though we went ashore th3&enil
and made the circuit of theNS 81
7ounding the city by moot |, n
learning until next mornint&bt Y
had made ourselves liable ttlita
arrest by being out after 93q bu S
Colombia is still in state o N II We
which has now reached its 4 acu
stage, and no one is allowpn t
street after a certain no Xitho
special authority. This hog Tries
different places. On the COZ is 9.
P. NJ. while here in Bogota; S eig
o'clock. If one ventures oufe pr tn;
unless he misses" the ceds, he
brought up standing by Alt
Quien Vive?" of the sentsB and
he is wise he doesn't waste time
"halting" and explaining no &C
there This often means Il hit spe
i'm the Quartet, or militaI arracl
but taken all in all it is q h to
preferred to the whistlin@ Maus
bullets.
Well, we landed in CaRgena
the morning of June 9th went
the Hotel Americana. Seemed
triie steep to pay SIS to our b;
gage up from the wharf lwhen
had calculated the amoulh h Unit
states currency we c@d it "
dirt cheap" Spent IN G.
thageha as there were no tiAs runnl
across to Calamas and hat8 been
a month. Utilized the tipby VISIT
the various points of i15Hest VIII
the city affords and n iutere
ing old town it is, too. u was
nearly three hundred 'ars Spal
stronghold on the SPANS main, be
surrounded by walls WHO pre- SAID
have cost s59,OOO,0OO. Cedn it is Il
whatever may be said otbe race
today the Spaniards of tcee and ii
hundred years ago were hardy, en-
getic, persevering set of b. Thl
evidenced by their travels p conque
in lands in which even tday trave
difficult, and by the ending quallt
of the works which the left behi
The walls of CarthagenaaFe an ex'
liant example of how VII they bu
They are constructed enIrely OF CO
rock and are in almost a good st
of preservation today 3 when tt
were built, more than dree hund
years ago. In addition It's walls
cient Carthagena's fortif@tlons incl
ed several forts in the hEb Dor and t
of San Felipe which Liz east of
city and between it al La Popa
mountain EhoSe top
surmounted by an old SIhish conve
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