THE MAGDALENA EIVER. 



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LOOKING DOWN THE MAGDALENA FROM BANCO. 



saw no ducks or white egrets, but numbers of macaws, parrots, 

 kingfishers, and wood ibises. The doctor gave Cabell a sudorific, 

 and at night he was much better. We spent a very hot night, 

 tormented by mosquitoes. 



Thursday, June 30, 1892. We made an early start this morn- 

 ing, and did not stop until Ave reached Puerto Berrio, about ten 

 o'clock. This is a village on the western bank o£ the Magdalena, 

 and is the starting-point for the Anti()quia Railroad, which is des- 

 tined to reach Medillin, the cai)ital of the department of Antioquia, 

 but which now terminates at Pavas, about twenty-five miles from the 

 river. Here Lindauer and myself went ashore with the guns. Cabell, 

 although feeling well, thought it best to keep out of the sun. We 

 went back a short distance along the railroad track ; but it was 



