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Title: A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Robinson, Wirt, b. 1864
Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) Riverside press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s, and ridges of theroofs are painted white. A great many of the houses have theirgable ends facing the street, but the slope of the end walls isprettily broken into curves and angles, with appropriate mouldingall along. There are no chimneys to the houses. Cooking is doneover a handful of twigs or charcoal in a little iron or earthenwarevase like a fruit-dish. They are much like a plumbers stove, or THE ISLAND OF CURACAO. 19 like the stoves that our laundresses use to heat their irons. Ofcourse one is required for each dish, as only one article at the timecan be cooked on them. The stores are well supplied, and as thisis a free port everything- is extremely cheap, — many things beincrmuch cheaper than they are in the United States. The streets, some of which are too narrow for any vehicle, haveno sidewalks, but are all neatly paved with water-worn coral blocksset m mortar. The pavements are put down in regular pattern,square sections with diagonal lines, like the letter X. We saw a
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NARROW STREET IN CURACAO. funny little street car drawn by a donkey. There were seats foronly six passengers, and the car carried a driver and a conductor In the shade in front of houses, and in a great many doorways,squatted old negresses with fruits, peanuts, candies, dried fish, and 20 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. charcoal for sale. Among the tropical fruits which I tasted for thefirst time were some mamon.es/ a fruit which grows in bunches andlooks like a large green grape. The skin was rougher and thicker,and when bitten split open, showing a sweetish, yellowish pulparound a large stone. I also tasted some mangoes, a large pear-shaped fruit with a smooth yellowish green skin. This, when peeledoff, showed a soft yellow pulp, something like our pawpaw but morefibrous. It had a sicky sweet taste, with a flavor of turpentinethat made it very disagreeable to me. I also saw a fruit called cachii, pear-shaped, pink and yellow, with a lead-colored bean-shaped excrescence at the larger e

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