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EXPERIENCES IN COLOMBIA 



We got away at eleven o'clock that night and on the following 

 morning were out of sight of land, continuing so all day. As there were 

 no ladies aboard, and as it was exceedingly hot, we lived in pajamas and 

 came nearer to being comfortable than we had at any time for a week. 

 It was told us incidentally during the day by one of the officers that the 

 report had gone abroad in Barranquilla that the President of the United 

 States had been assassinated a report circulated probably by some one 

 who was feeling sore about Panama. The matter furnished a day's 



THE WRITER (ON THE RIGHT) AND HIS COMPANIONS DU VOYAGE. 



[The boy is Julius Caesar.] 



excitement, until the arrival of the next steamer confirmed its untruth- 

 fulness. 



The following morning found us at the entrance of the harbor at 

 Cartagena. We entered by the old Spanish forts, passing groves of palms, 

 coming into a beautiful stretch of harbor, where fronting us lay the old 

 walled city, built close to the water's edge, with a background of tree 

 clad heights, a sight picturesque and beautiful, and a wonderful con- 



