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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, 1864-1929
Subjects: Birds -- Colombia Natural history -- Colombia Travel -- Colombia Travel -- Netherlands Antilles
Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : Riverside press

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r protected by woodenbars. It had blinds, but no glass. From its name we expected tofind this an English hotel, but it was kept by a native woman, andpractically managed by the negro waiter, Sam. In our hurry in the morning we had left the ship without break-fasting, and here, according to the custom of the country, we didnot get our breakfast until after twelve oclock, so we were veryhungry. Breakfast was served in the piazza facing the court. Wehad some strange dishes, none of them very good to my taste, butthe coffee Avas excellent. The fresh meat is stringy and tough.Rice is well cooked, but is dark colored. After breakfast I went out alone to attend to a few matters. Ifirst called at the American consuls, but found him out. A fewhours later I was told that there was a man in the house at thetime suffering from yellow fever, which he had contracted at somemines up the river. This was rather pleasant for me, especially asI had entered the house. From here I went to the custom-house
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36 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. and after a great deal of wrangling succeeded in getting our guns.The officials made but little objection to my taking the shot guns,but haggled a great deal over the rifle. After my repeated assur-ances that I had no warlike intentions, they finally gave it up to me. I then went to the Banco Nacional and cashed a bill of exchanofefor $500 in American gold, getting for it $1,000 in Colombianpaper currency. As a great part of this was given to me in smallnotes, I had nearly a satchel full of money and felt very opulent.The paper notes in circulation are the hundred, fifty, twenty, ten,five, and one dollar or peso, and the fifty, twenty, and ten cents, orcentavos. The peso is regarded as divided into one hundred cen-tavos, corresponding to our cent, and into ten reales, correspondingto our dime. There are also three nickel coins, media, cuartilla,etc., corresponding to 5, 2j, and 1; centavos. Silver coins are veryscarce. Besides a few cuartillas I saw on

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