Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-01-11
On orgEK slpE OF TIE EQUATOR.
Fza3 1apson Writes Of His Jorrnsy TO sruth Amer :
Tea and Observations There

The CENSOR is permitted to Gull few
note from a letter written to his mother
ia tats city oy Fred Hanson some weels
age who Lcr the second time Is repre-
saG.jae wei ';oown thresher manu-
taeTdriog firla introducing their mach
'ao sn south Amag From the fact
.ast ais letter IA November 18th,
last Is uav be s that it requires
long sirns far mail esch it's destiua-
u)u 10 this cou4 Z. Fred's letter is
written from Lah= n, Prov, De Sante
"Ne lel5 New on the 2nl of Oct
olag and As3 n same steamer that I
came on lass g9E This time she had
tina 3Es5st 3 ever carried on any
a'4a @9'ns in9 enos Aires. We had
q h1e pass - Aaide of couple OF
.t-rms, wheG = sea ran quite high, bat
] enjoyed len the waves were g
g1lag j. g}5Tssepd hard and the boat
wouiN 20 up Il. tne air and down again.
a couple OF he boys vent ous ic the
Prov OF TIE boat when sG7 was dong
uer pitching and got good and wet; bus
Y1n can hat eh3t | was not having any In
lnt0e We did not see any whale for
long time, nor any porpoise, till we were
2
d9g sae an eagle and the captain told us
wa might shoot it, providing we would
land on the boats SO all Of rs that
could find anything 70 shoot with went
c.t king for Nr Eagle Finally,
aEs@l bad shot thirty or forty times
I acsadad "a hitting il and it fell on
Q54l, After We held a post mOrtum
oyeE j. and ta3nd IL to have died by hav-
ing bullet passed through its body we
tEr8ed ID t0par 70 the stewart He dressed
0E skinned il and stuffed IT, He put it
ON pad tai on he piano in the saloon,
aud tied q tag on IT, stating in what len
1tu5a aud how tai from land and slain
2y ms. We ha3 quite good gang on
h1grfi as passengers There were four
DeerIBE men, four Mccormick men, QUE
Pagt Huron Jhresber man, same man
who ~ ut down with me last year, and
my friend Joe and myself But we had
a liGerent crew this year on the boat than
we had last year. When we crossed the
equ=t2r we did not have any fun with
the men, The way they did with us last
yeag There were a couple Of the boys
Sick aA tbe way coming down but they
would nos admit IL wss sea sickness,
they had O. different name for it. We
studied Spanish on the way down and l
was the professor We arrived at Mont
evi1ao In - days and had to stop there
and discharge cargo, so we all went
ashore and had dinner 1t was the first
| i've course dinner that most of them ever
aI d5wn TO, aud they hardly knew how
art when each coarse was brought on
8gs fortunately we were in a room all
| hg ctrseives and SO EVe got on all o. X.
/ and no one knew aow green some of as
Americans aru We raised anchor about
! midnight to 20 up the river Plate to
} Baeuas Aires We got 10 within about
! e,En miles q The city and there we
/ stuck for want 81 water Wind was ln
/ WRONG direction and driving the water
( Qua o. the rlvsr instead Of In. The doc
tor came aboard to see If we were all
| well Ie sent Cut tug to take all pas
/ aeugers 10 to town, and so we all got
4 through the custom house that night
aua zp 10 the hotel where they were
\ glA8 3 see nae and where I found some
Of my friends cL the year before. The
next day tbs h0yH gave me vote Of
thapks for all thst | had done for them
lG tbs way ok interpreting and teaching
| them what / couii OF the language
This place where am is very small
/ hat ID is laid ont. In hne shape and all
! She people here are IN very good circum-
! ptaueea They raise wEeat and fax here
aaezetber and DO not naYe any stock,
| 5rgah as sheep, cR' 3 aud hcrses, only
/ for their own Hse. The fields are very
/ large and have trees ell around them.
| Ard the people 10 not live like they do
! in 8oms parts They have 81 that they
/ can eat. aud good 20 that HGv5 good
! sec agd Falp0ops. They do not put
/ fha.r n2.se5 IN barns az 81 do at homo,
bias tnu3 them out in the pasture. Tka}
| very seldUn feed them grain Of any kind
auQ tGsy are all tat and nice, too. But
yau viii ba urpgised, perhaps to tird
tbgt hese people here are Italians, They
afe very good farmers too. They are
Da5 anything ike the Italians we have
st home Isa Qnly thing have against
them they haYa such awful breaths you
cam hardly taiE TO one Of them on ac-
/ conas of IT, They have colony here
oh ID 5bemsaieez their own butchers
hsrnc5s Iaahgrs, biacksmiths carpe1-
fer4 aai every ki.ld Of trade you can
I Imagine
c4n tjabbar" Spanish in fine old
style and understand nearly all that they
ay ia it8l,aa Eae the two are very
glai.Ar aud when spoken properly are
very musical
20 not baow when I will be in
8aa9cr Aires sgatn.