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year is delightful and the nights always cool. The country is 
healthful. 
Touching at Porto Cabello, we then passed by several phosphate 
islands to Cura(joa, which has been heretofore the great center 
from which merchandise was distributed to the South American 
coast. The make up of these islands (sometimes called the Lesser 
Antilles) is organic. 
