Showing posts with label South-America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South-America. Show all posts
Saturday, May 31, 2008

The Brazilian Anaconda

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1895 An Immense and Formidable Reptile That Lives to a Great Age. The late Mr. Bates in his 11 years spent in the Brazilian forests saw and ...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

All Over The State

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1916 A most successful as well as profitable round trip from New York to Buenos Ayres was completed by the five-masted schooner, Harwood Pal...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

Aztec's Sacred Mushroom

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1916 Mushrooms are dangerous enough in the United States, where those who gather and eat them prize their flavor, and sometimes perish by re...
Friday, March 14, 2008

As to Conversational Parrots

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1902 Do parrots understand what they say? A correspondent writes that a friend with a fine Brazilian parrot has been staying with her. The p...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

England's Boundarymaker

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1903 Sir Thomas Holdich leaves England on his mission to lay down the new frontier between Chile and the Argentine Republic. It is not a lig...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Catching Monkeys in South America

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1900 The fondness of monkeys for mischief makes them the ready dupes of a shrewder intelligence. The manner of entrapping them is explained ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

An "All-American" Conference

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1900 Arrangements are in progress for the assembly at the City of Mexico next year of a general congress of all the independent governments ...
Monday, June 25, 2007

A Glimpse of Caracas

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1896 What Correspondent Saw in Venezuela's Capital Comparatively few of the men here ever venture into the street unarmed, writes a Cara...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

Eating Parrots, Albatross, Weeds, Acorns

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1896 Food Can Be Almost Anything Few of us, or, indeed, of any people, would think of eating parrots, especially if anything else could be g...

Chinese Fond of Swallow's Nests

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1896 Crocodile Steaks and Rats Of all strange foods that men have ever used, the one that seems most singular to us is the bird's nest u...
Friday, June 22, 2007

An Asphalt Lake In Venezuela

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1901 Huge Deposit of Pitch — Foreigners Not Welcome To the people of Venezuela this great deposit of asphalt is known as Largo la Brea, or t...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

River in Paraguay Leads Only To Mystery

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1903 A GREAT MYSTERY A Land From Which No Traveler Has Returned One of the great mysteries of the world that is left for explorers to solve ...
Saturday, April 7, 2007

Easter in Buenos Aires, A Feast of Flowers

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1915-- Easter in Buenos Aires, the capital of the Argentine Republic, is literally a feast of flowers. Nowhere else in the entire world, per...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Wireless Music Entertains Men on Ships at Sea

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Like all well-regulated ships, the transport "George Washington" has a phonograph. It also has wireless-telephone equipment of the...

It Comes Easy

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---------- Comes Easy It never requires any practice to be dissatisfied. ---------- Births and Deaths at Sea For every birth occurring at se...