Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-11-20
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it's head waters; who had floated
DOWN the sacred Gauges and who was
so we'll acquainted with the whole
heart of Africa, that he declared that
Rider Haggard's descriptions were all
of places which he himself had visited
and of which he too had felt the thrill.
Aud indeed, he must have felt thrills
to be able to communicate them as he
did in his descriptions of the baboon
region, which descriptions almost
outrivaled Hsggard's pen pictures.
Yet this man was quiet and unassum-
ing and did not go about bearing
plscsrd, 81 am a globe trotter," nor
screaming through a megaphone,
"Whatever you have seen, have
seen things yet more interesting" as
so many of his class do.
Would any lady reader care to
know the correct dress on Magda-
lena river boat? AS displayed by the
negro women passengers and tt G
Colombian ladies, outside Of the "good
families, 1t is a Mother Hubbard
wrapper of some light color and OF
great flowing propensities, heelless
bath slippers, and several pounds OF
jewelry", hair bands, long ear rims s,
neck aces, chains, pendeuts, bracelets
and rings. The effect is very funny
and these ladies are so obviously con
scious of their overpowering charms
that one can scarcely preserve a calm
enough demeanor to respond to their
"Buenos Dias."
The express boats are popular and
this one was crowded. We sat hud-
died together at the dinner table,
under the smoking, swinging kero-
sene lamps, around which hundreds
of insects fought-sat at the long
table which stretched away in the
dimness. The ste warts were officiou :
Iy attentive but their courtesies would
have been better appreciated, at least
by the Americans of the party, had
their hands and bare feet borne the
appearance of ever having made the
acquaintance of water.
Indians Cannot Be Trusted.
In great part the speed that this
boat made up the river was due 10
the new method which the expires s
boats have adopted of securing the
wood to run the engines. They ar
range at regular intervals for full
barges to await the arrival of the
steamer. When the boat comes upon
these barges it exchanges the empty
barge for the filled one and goes on
Immediately instead of tying up TO
the bank while the sailors load the
wood onto their heads and transfer it
to the steamer. This new method, as
yet tried only by the express boats,
saves at least five hours each day and
when one remembers that these boats
all "tie up" nights and wait for day
light it will be seen that five hours
out of the twelve hours of sunlight in
the tropics is no small item. This
method is not universally adopted by
the river-boats, it was explained to us,
because the Indians who furnish this
wood can't be trusted, either to supply
good wood nor to have the quantity of
fuel in the barge that they are ready to
swear by all that is holy to them, that
they have.
In the rainy season one does not
suffer from suffocating heat as at other
seasons, but oh, the mosquitoes!
We had been told that we would
arrive at Bodegs Central, where we
left the steamer, some time between
nine and ten o'clock Monday morning.
Just as we were going to our cabin
Sunday night one of the stewards re-
marked that we would have to awaken
early to get off the boat before day
light. Ut must be noted that the
express boats travel nights until after
they pass Bodega CENTRALLY We re-
piled to the stewards remark that we
did not leave the boat until the next
day, but the little Indian was so GER
tain that we left it in the night that
we were fain to consult the captain.
To be sure we passed Bodega Central
long before daylight. Had no one told
us? We would be Obliged to leave the
steamer some time around two in
the morning. We looked at each other
in CONSERVATION. We had planned to
rearrange several trunks that Monday
morning to have all in readiness for
the canoe trip and for the mountains at
the end of Lebrjja river. There was
food to think of, too, because we were
embarking for weeks canoe ride
without the possibility of securing a
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