Evening star., 1924-11-30
Editorial Correspondence OF the Star
THEODORE w. MOVES.


When l was in South America
III 1910 | had not the time to make
the long, hard journey to the falls.
In 1911 l saw the Victoria Falls of
the Zambesi, in South Africa. And
ever since l have wished strongly to
see the South American falls, which,
with Niagara and Victoria, constitute
the trio of the worlds great water
falls.
Dnshes Across the Equator.
ITO visit both Victoria and Iguazu
one makes longitudinal dash
across the equator from the north
temperate to the south temperate
zone. These ocean excursions, with
the corresponding dash from the Pa
ciiic Coast of the United States to the
South Sea Islands, New Zealand and
Australia constitute the most inter
esting routes of sea travel to one IA
miliar with Europe and Asia.
The ruts in world travel are worn
along the parallels of latitude. Like
succeeds like in excursions eastward
and westward. The maximum of
diversities in climate and of novel
ties, dissmilarities and contradictions
in general and in particular are
found in longitudinal travel
In each of the three excursions in
dicated one enjoys many thousand
miles of ocean travel over seas that
are for the most part smooth and in
an atmosphere that is for the most
part balmy and health-giving. On
each route in traversing the torrid
zone one yields himself willingly to
the fascination and lazy delights of
tropical lotus land. He observes on
all these excursions Spanish-speak-
Ing, Portuguese speaking or English
speaking men in the south temper
ate zone struggling to conquer the
soil and to solve the same political
and social problems that engage the
attention of the north temperate zone.
AS at home, he sees fine cities, har-
bors. farms and forests, great water
falls and snow mountains. Unlike
those familiar at home, he sees also
unique and curiously characteristic
animals, birds, trees and flowers.
He comes to topsy-turvy land which
looks south instead of north to the
pole, where the seasons are reversed.
where one plcnics among the flowers
and perspires on Christmas day and
freezes on the Fourth of July.
Topsy-turvydom at the Antipodes.
A USTRALIA - Marsupialdom - the
land of the Kangaroo. Is conspicu-
Gus in contrasts and contradictions.
1t is land where a bird (the laugh
ing jackass), instead of singing,
laughs like man: where a fish has
the beak and colors of parrot; where
a parrot Uhe kea) kills sheep like d
wolf; where a winged fish flies and
Wingless birds dixie the kiwi and the
extinct giant moab cannot; where there
are crabs that climb trees for cocoa
nuts; where non-tigersh tigers"
neither bite nor claw, and where,
finally. the platypus fiourishes, COM
blning and confusing all species-a
fSCh - ~,
bill and webbed feet of a duck, and
lays and matches eggs; which has the
equatic habits of a fish and the trowel-
tail and fur of the beaver. Australia
has, moreover, flowers without odor,
white eagles and black opals, black
swans and white btuminous coal.
Diamonds, Gold and Land of Ophir.
South Africa offers as attractions
to the tourist, not only Victoria Falls,
but at Kimberly, the worlds richest
diamond mines. 1t was the land of
gold in ancient as well as modern
times, and Rhodesia, with It's ancient
gold workings and with it's ruins of
hundreds of gold smelling fortresses,
is identified with the Havilah of the
Scriptures, which supplied Solomon
and the Queen of Sheba with the gotd
of Ophir, even If it were not Gas con-
tended by some) the land of Oph.r
itself. 1t is a land fascinating TO
the archie ologist through these ruins
of ancient forts and temples of sun
and nature worshipers. built at an
indefinite period in the past by Ash
attic gold seekers. 1t was long ago
the land of the bushmen, dwarfs.
shooting poisoned arrows. 1t was
the land of the Hottentot and later
of the giant. almost naked Zulu, who
rushed to battle with fierce enthu
siasm under his Napoleons like the
famous Chaka. 1t Is today the land
of the Briton. the Boer and the Kaf-
fir. For the benefit of the hunter
and the student of natural history it
is the land of the zebra and giraffe.
the lion, the rhinoceros. the hippo
potamus and the ostrich
Incas, Andes. Iguazu.
THE North American visitor in
South America is attracted by
the same diversities in climate. in
birds. in flowers and in beasts. from
llama to jaguar and tapir. He finds
in Inca land, at Cuzco and in it's vi
cinity, on the Lake Titicaca plateau
and on the Islands of the Sun and
Moon in the unique lake itself. won
derful remains of ancient civilization
and some of the worlds grandest
a land not only like others of gold,
silver, copper and diamonds. but also
of nitrates-even more precious. In
its accessible falls like lguaZu, and
in its comparatively inaccessible falls
like Kaieteur, it rivals South Africa
and North America. In great and
beautiful cities. as in mountains.
lakes and fiords it is unsurpassed.
In visiting Iguazu from the United
States one should go by the west
coast of South America and return
cording to the season Of the year.
Our Summer. corresponding to
Winter in the south temperate zone,
is the best season for visiting the
tropical or sub-tropical regions-the
Canal Zone, Peru, Paraguay, Iguazu
Falls and Brazil Our cold weather.
or Summer in the south temperate
zone, is best for the high attitudes
of the Lake Titicaca plateau of
Peru and Bolivia, for Chile and Ar
gentina, especially the southern sec
tion of these republics, with their
Swiss lakes and Norwegian fiords.
/ went this year from Washington
on the last of May by the west coast
route, which carries one through the
Panama Canal, to Callao for Lima and
Oroya railroad: to Mollendo for Are
uuipa, Cuzco, Lake Titicaca, La Paz;
to Valparaiso and Santiago, across or
through the Andes and over the Ar
zentine prairie or pampas to Buenos
Aires, Iguazu Falls (Asuncion), Mon
teyideo, Santos, Sac Paulo, Rio (Trin-
idad, Barbados,) and New York.
UNIQUE sights and world s.perla-
tfveS.