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Travels and Adventures 



Carthagena, along the rugged Colombian coast, passing 

 on the way the Indian territory and the Gulf of Darien. 

 The scenery is wild and beautiful, and the harbour of 

 Colon is considerably more attractive from the sea 

 than on shore. Although there is the advantage, if it 



STREET IN COLON BEFORE THE FIRE. 



may be called one, of the ship lying alongside the 

 wharf, yet the change from the romantic surroundings 

 of Carthagena to the more modern filth and disorder 

 of Colon is anything but agreeable. With the colossal 

 project of uniting the two great oceans came what 

 appears to be the scum of all nations, if one may form 

 an opinion by looking into the American bars, Chinese 



