The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-12-11
n STATES OF COLOMBIA
I'm the Magdalena River.

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,,rraspondence of The Journal.l
a' .orrILA, COLOMBIA, Novem-
pR'' Though this northernmost
~ south America is only about
!. glp' ..,ud miles from New York,
h " or is less known to us than
\ 81" ,friea; and its three-century
b u +, almost as difficult of ac-
VT 1.4J nut for the much-talked-
p rrIect. and perpetually re-
' locations that threaten to
pp' with our traffic across the
''' re If the older sister republic
$l'' hear of Colombia at all,
f'' ontitularly if it were stricken
.' rp Of the world. Until re-
.rr has been no regular COM
y" .aa between the ports of the
'p' ..-l+.. and those of Colombia,
' M ghbor; and to this day
m...r.Ot way of reaching them.
2" ,..r, AGO an English company
..s lie of steamers between
y g.. .1 file mouth of the Mag
..a- l0r great fuvial highway
....- uterior-by which two
arc made; but the YES
. several West Indian
-.u- fifteen days in the
9ubia. Three times a
.... 1.DIt mail steamers leave
J- tod colon. OF Aspinwall;
&C.,. -r named place one may
steamer, under almost
t ihe stars and Stripes,
... ..r at various Caribbean
r....- TWO OF three of Colom-
u way to Europe. But
vr reached a port on the
.. great, wild country, the
.. apital has hardly begun.
m rt such a superb stretch of
.um6a possesses not a
worthy the name-those
... H auama being the best.
,. attFr's insecure and rocky
-I-.. aut one other on the Pa
.uIs.t.t' of Buenaventura, which
--s.N been brought into some
+..+ amiuence. On the Atlantic
E. more correctly speaking, on
5. .e lribbean seattle only
liable .lpping place for Colombian
m,rt ~abauilla: both Colon and
,aa bang merely ports of transient
. Er. STD little of local industry
msl forests crowd close upon
a., quilla itself is the most des-
and alty Of fishing villages, of no
en4r,e whatever except for its
aa# Tough totally inaccessible
.-s, .-,-r 5. has been made to an
poses of a seaport by a
.a E enterprising Germans.
j. i years ago some gentlemen
I.-ae put a few steam tugs and
Ri. ~dbanlila bay for the benefit
-,sels that could not get into
. me Of railroad from the
IA spanish town of Bar
-Eteeu miles inland. The
gas that the insignificant
Z, " lily twenty houses sud
med ont into the most inn
5 -.nl colombia, commercially
-0- 'lth ii reputation of twenty
. = thousand and still grow
sing tie older historic cities
3 and santa Maria, lying
U- of If. The custom house
ed at Barranquilla pro-
. spelled Bar an-keel- yah
must go all merchandise
--3s bound ''up-river,' as the
ST. .- Magdalena is invariably
Fen coming down from Co
a. l-euor to the outer world.
mall steamer and sailing
couveys the multltudinous
I.s HE vast roadless country
aa- UWSt start from and return
A l.ve. and wait for official per-
0eioIt It's cargo can be dis
''.-a -o >abanilla: the village is
a-,U oN the main land, but on a
~and-spit that has formed
te mouth of the river. Its
t.'"+f safe nor convenient for
.n vessel, being full of shifting
4 and exposed to the fury of
,s't'"rws. Not a green thing grows
.-ht If Sabanilla; and nobody
.ttT nut a miserable colony of
-r' t4l stevedores, and few even
'e-lpit4 saloon-keepers, who alb
e- .'- money their neighbors earn
ti HborIous calling, in exchange
IF VEST native intoxicants. These
Nth Eaose Spanish name is car
rs are d people by themselves,
~ 'u} others on the face of the
tL up and down the coast of
Auruca, on both sides of the
AeHt they are necessary evils at
so'a4ed port, because there are
''" ltaces where vessels can come
,Nat TWO or three miles from
.4ese Of Colombia are mostly
Wy s.anders, with a sprinkling of
"I'ru and the lowest class of Ital-
ih'ir palm-thatched huts are