TROPICAL VERDURE in a riverside park at Guayaquil, Ecuodorean metropolis, 

 screens the Valero III anchored in the rushing Guayas River, a great estuary 

 which extends far inland from the Pacific. Great rafts of bananas are floated 

 downstream from the interior to tie up alongside flimsy wharves as shown be- 

 low. The river teems with traffic on the ebb and flow of swift-running tides. 

 Guayaquil, chief port of Equador, is known as the "Pearl of the Pacific." 





