EXPERIENCES IN COLOMBIA. 



A RACE FOR PORT THE JOURNEY TO BARRANQUILLA HOTEL EXPERIENCES IN 

 THAT CITY A LARGE SUM EXPENDED FOR DOUBTFUL PLEASURES THE STAY IN 

 CARTAGENA LITTLE INFORMATION TO BE GAINED ABOUT RUBBER THE MEETING 

 WITH MR. GRANGER, UNITED STATES CONSULAR AGENT AT QUIBDO, COLOMBIA 

 His INTERESTING SUMMARY OF THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRY AND His PROPHECY 

 FOR THE FUTURE. 



IT had been my fortune a number of times to observe the pictur- 

 esque coast of Colombia from the sea, on both the Atlantic and 

 Pacific sides, but up to the time that the good ship Sarnia landed 

 me at Savanilla I had never set foot on its sacred soil. It was, there- 

 fore, with much interest that I stood on deck and watched the approach 



VIEW OF BARRANQUILLA. 



of the vessel to the three hundred-foot iron pier that is about all there 

 is of the "Port of Colombia." There was, to be sure, a cluster of huts 

 about the litle railway station ; huts that seemed to grow up out of the 

 desolate shore much as the cactus and mesquite did, without any human 

 intervention, but the result rather, of a dry, creative impulse of some 

 arid desert god. 



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