Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-03

seemed a telegram. but what proved
10 be a note from the telegraph opera
tor, TO the effect that no one was all
lowed 10 pass out without duly signed
passport Here was difficulty, indeed.
Managua was a long distance of and
travelling was very slow. II would take
a week. even Il the officers werr
prompt to get the papers back. and II
they are as slow as they are usually
reputed 10 be. two weeks would easily
be consumed called for the
captain and telegraph operator,
who confirmed the statement OF the
note, the captain adding that he had
no discretion In the matter, but he had
TO obey orders
Does the passport have to be from
your government ! asked.
Yes, sir was the reply.
Getting my United states passport
and the letter Of Introduction given me
by Governor Wells with the large red
seal Of the State Of Utah attached, |
called these worthless again, and ex-
hlbiting the two papers. remarked:
Here are our passports. We are
American citizens and need no other
You might require from a Nicaraguan
a passport from Nicaragua. but from
an American no. These passports have
permitted US 10 enter and 10 exit all
the republics from Mexico down and
they entered us into this republic. They
will surely take us out again.
/ had struck the right strain. The
great seals were an they could make
out and OF these they could only make
out the color and size, but they way
erred, After some minutes consultation
between themselves. they returned
with one question. These passports
would take you an over the world,
would they notg" My answer was an
emphatic. eyes" aud the matter was
settled. After a pleasant nights rest
and the best of treatment from our
host and the officers. We rolled out next
morning. Wednesday. June l0 without
molestation and In two hours were
across the line into Costa Rica.
BEAUTIFUL PANORAMA.
No pen can adequately paint the
beauties OF the cyerchanginc panorama
Of beautiful scenes through which We
PASSED as we followed the little trail up
the banks of the river Sapoa. The i'm
mcnsc spreading trees with vines
hanging from the very topmost b1ughs
and reaching 90 the ground the beaui.
ful varieties of moss on the trunks or
the trees. and the ferns end flowers
and bushes OF an shapes end kinds
forming the undcrhrush. helped 10
make the picture The monkeys and
balloons In the tops VI The trees. the
parrots aud other birds with their noise
and their songs and above an the
gaudy cOlored macaw that ileW ar our
approach with "a great quack, quack,
added 10 the interest of the scene. Ana
then az times there was he quiet How
ING river. almost shaded by the large
trees hanging over it slowly vending
ITS way to the lake. and thence TO the
ocean. Mr.. Fairbanks was ~ ecsiacE'
and declared this to be- the artists par
adise." But our picture soon chang,d'
A heavy rain storm set in. and the
wate. fe1 as ~ an the lake had sudden
IN been lifted above us and tlrned over.
we crossed "a divide and coming 10
river bed with but little water, bad TO
follow ur the stream, there was no
other trail. I'M places the little water
,eepr,s8 considerable depth and our
horse unred and plunged. often going
In AN over. But we kept on our way
over rock and through holes. Inc
rain continued also and We knew the
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