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Travels and Adventures 



TriancE is found over a wide area, but all the plants 

 taken from these parts, as well as from Pacho, La 

 Palma, etc., must be brought to a small town called 

 Honda ; this is the principal port of the Magdalena 

 river, about six hundred miles from the sea. Swift- 



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running rapids prevent the larger steamboats going 

 further up the river than Honda, but another line of 

 boats has been built above the rapids. These vessels 

 navigate the river for three hundred miles more to a 

 place called Neiva. Hundreds of mules, carrying 

 every imaginable class of produce, throng the road 

 from Bogota to Honda. On arrivinsf on the banks of 



