The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-10-18
School Notes

| IS dlInOSI the Sd1lle as IudI O1 IHe Brooklyn Eagle party which toured South America in 1922. They have chartered the well known steamer Wrangell for their long voyage. The following letter has been received from John Kinsch, who was one of the organizers of theSouth American tour:
 Bogota, Colombia, S.A.,
 October f, 1923. Dear Folks
 I expected to find Bogota a coun- try town. but instead it is a very modern city. There are street cars here.
 We just got back from the Cafe I ordered a dish of iguana lizard for supper It was very delicious. It tasted like spring chicken. The people here are very fond of iguana | izard.
 We see great many donkeys .arrying things to the market, We see Indians wearing ponchos. A poncho is a blanket with a hole in the middle to put their heads through.
 Bogota is quite high city. It is higher than Denver, Colorado.
 We had a nice time in Panama. We saw the locks. We are going through the Panama Canal when we .eturn.
 We saw many palm trees at Pan- anna and there were a lot of mon keys. They had iron telegraph poles there. We all wondered why they were iron. Can you guess? It is be- cause there are so many ants which travel in swarms and they chew the wooden ones and ruin them.
 After we left Panama we sailed southward to Buenaventura, the chief seaport of Colombia. From here we took a train over the noun tains to the Cauca River valley. There we visited a cacao plantation. The owner was very kind to us. He told all about the cacao trees and how to plant them. We get choco late from cacao. We arrived in Ketchikan the evening of the day we left Wrangell just in time for the movies. We left the next morning for Vancouver where we parted from the sixth grade. We stayed in Seattle just long enough to get few things we need ed. We also made a short stop in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The parks were beautiful. In Los Ange- les there was a crowd of people standing on the dock admiring our boat.
 Your loving son,
 John Kinsch. The sixth grade are touring the States. MT. Everson, a local mer- chant, is in receipt of the following letter from his son, John:
 Baltimore, Md.
 October 1, 1928 Dear Folks We are staying in a very fine ho- tel in Baltimore and are having lots of fun. This ish beautiful place. h, lotc nf nvnnriapnac since we left Wrangell. We reached Ketchikan about o'clock and so went to a movie. Our boat was named the Wran- gell, you know. It was a beautiful boat. We said goodbye to the fifth grade at Vancouver because they are taking a trip on the Wrangell way down to South America. Then we went to the c. P. R. depot and started our trip across the conti- nent We saw some wonderful scenery in the Canadian Rockies. We stopped at Lake Louise and Lake WlnQeTHleTe WueFe we went III swimming. We had lot of fun. We continued our trip across the continent until we reached the St. Lawrence River where we took a river steamer Then we chartered a special boat to take us to Washing ton, D. c.
 We saw Washington's monument and we went into the White House. We saw inventions in the Patent Off, flee and many models of steamboats. We saw a great many big buildings. We also went to the Mint where hey make money. Everything was very interesting.
 We took a train from the Union Station at Washington to Baltimore. We arrived here at noon today and had lunch at big restaurant. We Da1k iG vN f.