Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-12-15

south out OF new 40rk, one
meets with the usual rolling
stone who has learned every
thing but to mind his own business.
He will inform the traveller of the
dreadful climates to be endured, the
shameful treatment extended to all
foreigners, most especially Americans,
that will have to be suffered in passing
through custom houses and other SIM
liar tales, writes f. e. Duerr in the
Bulletin of the Par-American Union.
After voyage of Il days the city
of Para, better known as Belem, is
reached, and among the many pleas
ant surprises that greet the traveller is
the excellent and prompt manner in
which his baggage is cleared through
the customs by intelligent officials, who
act with a degree of promptness that
one would hardly expect in such close
proximity to the equator.
From the pier or dock, which COM
pares favorably with the best of our
country, there are electric cars or auto
mobiles that will take one to a first
class hotel, of which there are several
in Para, where the inland traveller can
put up until he makes his connection
with 4 river steamer.
There are several ways of making
the trip up the Amazon, the quickest
| being by means of an ocean steamer
| of either the Brazilian or British
| lines, which operate as far as Manaos
There are occasional British boats
that so as far as Iquitos, Peru. In
this way the trip to Manaos can be
made in from three to four days. TIC
| properly see the Amazon, however il
| is better to go by one of the rivel
boats, which ply lazily up against the
fast current. On account of the higt
cost of taking coal to the Amazon, the
river boats are run by wood fuel, ant
| the larger steamers consume abou
12,000 sticks of wood, feet long by I
by 4 inches, per day. On an average
of every other day this fuel is loaded
from the river banks, stick by stick, al
the work being done by hand and
needless to say, this operation, afte
being witnessed more than once, ma,
become somewhat tiresome
Boats Are Comfortable.
The cabins on the boat are larg
and rOomy, and have electric lights an,
fans; the dining room is aft on tn
open deck, and in the mornings, a
during the greater part of the day, i
is quite comfortable on board. Afte
sundown, however, the number of in
sects of all types, sizes, ETC., makes i
unpleasant and the traveller finds i
necessary to escape into his screene
stateroom, or into his hammock or CO..
carefully inclosed by mosquito nettin
of very fine mesh. There are fou
first-class shower baths on board, ais
running water in the cabins, and every
thing considered, one can make one
self fairly comfortable. The captain
or "comandante,' as he is calleC
rules supreme, and, on the average,
highly educated navigator, and h
and his cabinet" of officers are yer
agreeable to the passengers. Whe
one becomes accustomed to the food,
is very nourishing, and the service Q
the whole is satisfactory.
Besides the frequent stops for fue
the steamer calls at half-dozen poin
between Para and Manaos, the pril
, cipal ones being Santarem, noted fl
+ it's fine batelaos Qarge rewboats ar
+ Hghters); Obidos, the narrowest pa
of the river, and Itacoatiara, near Il
= mouth of the Madeira river.
A further surprise to the travele
= who has just spent ten days in IL
: mud-yellow river, is the sudden chans
4 in the color of the water to a dee
4 black, which is the first sign of a
s preaching, the city of Manaos, a tho
!. sand miles from the mouth of tro
!, ical river.
t This city has an excellent electT
:. car service, numerous public and pl