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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. I 
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- 
