The Republican journal., 1904-07-28
! Wonderful River System
Ids to the Very Center of South
{ VIZ" .,,a the City of Corrientes.

81 ,xrFs, ON THE PARANA, June
t''' II must be confessed that the
=, ,,pey up this most wonderful
oHs .ystem in the world, from the
a''' to the very heart of South
An'" crows monotOnous, at the
l1''- ATE of ten knots an hour. Our
1'''' is Asuncion, the capital of
o''''D ,ay 1000 miles from the start
t''' mi ard as day after day drags
N7 r me day exactly like all the
I'1" ..ep,s as If the objective point
i'' nsger be attained.
r days after leaving Rosario we
.tIeg Int an endless succession
't an the east, some of them
" ,. .j.u as 100 feet, while on the
bRuks stretch away in ver-
+.- aiternated with luxuriant
For lundreds of miles there is
.. .1 lnmapity, or of any living
EiE dlC lolS lSoShSo VI
4n,.e, aud other wild fruit
-u lows of poplars, straight
.... 81, church spires, or willows,
....4k, dabbling their long arms
.- wafer and nearly every tree
,ntvined by brilliant net
--.- olyolvuIi, glowing with scar
.-.msr.uW lowers among the green.
..rr larana has an average
....... $50 miles, but its channel is
..4.rr That we skirt first one bank,
49,, e,ler sometimes coming SO
.. that one could toss a stone
..... fae river is full of small
-l...s ,one low and marshy, with
.....s+ ts.I trees upon them: Others
-..-a0u with rank grass and green
.-.. 6u- the silence and desolation
,...-r all are appalling. Never any
,5.-g .r race of man or beast or bird,
.HM and uy the warwhoop of a wild
,,......r the howl of tiger would be
s-.uMe relief. There are islands
..-.4t covered with skeleton trees,
s... caves. bark and branches having
.-. stripped off and destroyed by a
.~,-tmus bird called the bigua-a
.- -5rkey- buzzard. At long inter
7.. SEE a parpincha (amphibious
nj. a.V in the ooze, or a solitary
1..- .lWk. or a crane fitting slowly
s. day after day the semi-tropic
81. ur5 MS tierceSt rays upon the
.... waters that are unrutfied ex-
e-.. It Tie steamers motion.
+. s.raSing of the scarcity of living
r.- forgot the insect world, which
much alive and dlabolically
as---tt- especially the mosquitoes.
ae ur bette rouge, which lays the
......t au If a tremendous ulcer. Go
q, ut1 the woods. and in mo-
1- gu are covered with ticks.
a-, ury themselves in your flesh,
ID. Pc. a large colony of young
..- ~ a few minutes. Flies get
i. mouth, your eyes, your nose;
.. AT rs. drink flies, breathe flies.
~ u-i and yellow; lizards, cock
rs eutipedes, scorpions, taran-
.. 6ys, and d few other ever
ue tpmpanions creep into bed
.l Ants and cricketS eat up
~ .a- md letters, and clothes-and
g.. ..t y.u mp, too, if you stand still
.- ugh. Everything devours,
0jr -tugs or poisons after an evil
9 It's own. An insect with an
o.. t-r of legs leleven) is swim
l.- EnM teacup; caterpillar with
HUlen eyes set in rows along
& Jumpers over your bread and
u5. 'ou observe a hairy worm with
fe.'i lad under a crisp lettuce leaf
salad, trying to wriggle him.
.-' t OF the vinegar. Meat, unless
-tl last all resemblance to any
@4- -oibIe, will not keep a day with
I'D. aeug warmed with another active
!mW Of IL. and as for the cheese and
',- '.t'tl-they are quite able to walk
H '.r table by themselves on the
@ll day of exposure. And the
-4QHtas. Always numerous in these
Ea.' nrre are seasons when they
.4- n clouds that literally obscure
4tsu and the sound of their buzzing
'se that of a distant saw mill
-s' hundred and forty-three miles
'N- Nmteyideo, still following the
'4dl5s Ot this wonderful river sys
FA though endless stretches OF
."AQt tile land on both sides still
e'olsr to the Argentine Republic; but
'N'sla} is not great way ahead
aug away up here, Hundreds of miles
''3L ilWhere" in the remote interior
" a. apparently unoccupied territory
wig Is astonished to find crowd OF
,'.5s from every country in Europe
anchored IN front of Corrientes-fol
"'a ely, Ike Rosario far below, is 6
S0'''l entry and enjoys great deal Of
"TL'h commerce. We observe thai
UPS from England and Germany art
~Fg-''Iiy numerous, and that there il
'- Gle from the United States, an(
'' ''I'' that the foreign trade of thes'
F'''s Is quite monopolized by the Eng
'S- and German merchants, who hav,