JL-.NE 1. 1914. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Foreign Trade Opportunities — II. 



ECUADOR. 



E\'ERV person of 

 pictures of the 1 

 tlie gcograpliiis 

 bananas at the foot of 

 the mountains, the 

 temperate zone pro- 

 ductions of the higher 

 slopes, t h e stunted 

 trees still higher, the 

 glistening snows witii 

 which the serried 

 peaks were finished ; 

 the picturesque citynf 

 Quito, basking in the 

 smiles of eternal 

 spring, nearly t w o 

 miles toward the sky, 

 and in t h e back- 

 ground a volcano 

 comfortably blowing 

 out its clouds of 

 smoke. We g a v e 

 faith to the pictures, 

 but it was much like 

 a fairy tale, after all. 

 It seemed as f a r 

 aw^ay as the moon, 

 as inaccessible as the 

 mirth pole, and. with 



middle age remembers the alluring 

 Republic of the Equator which were in 

 of his early youth. The palms and 



Ol-TLINE M.\P of EciWDOR. 



most of us, that impression has remained to this day. As a 

 matter of fact the chief city of Ecuador is not so far from 

 N'ew York as is Carson City, Nevada. The trip, first-class, can 



be made for only a 

 few dollars m o r e . 

 There are no difficul- 

 ties in the way of the 

 journey except such 

 as imagination may 

 make, and when the 

 traveler arrives he 

 will find that the old 

 geographies have un- 

 derstated the mar- 

 vels of this favored 

 land. But, he asks, 

 how is he to see the 

 interior, the land of 

 perpetual spring, the 

 snowy iieaks, the 

 smoking volcanoes. 

 the llamas, with their 

 chins up in the air 

 like an aristocrat 

 visiting the slums? 

 Me admits that he is 

 not now, as once, at- 

 tracted l)y pictures of 

 Ecuadorean travel — 



irashiugton. 



SCEXE I.N THE ll.\Kii;;K 



Cil'AV.MJClL. ECU.XUOR. 



