In Paraguay [pp. 204-210]

APPAEPTON VS' JOURNAL.
INv PAR A G UA Y.
HE way travelers generally reach Paraguay is with cedars or palms, and, while the water in some
by a small steamer from Buenos Ayres up the places is as clear as crystal, in others it is yellow and
Parana River, and, as that stream is exceedingly shal- muddy.
low, all the care of a skillful pilot is needed to pre- When the writer of this sketch made the trip, the
vent grounding. Everybody knows, of course, where vessel ran ashore two hundred miles short of her
PARAGUAYAN FIGURES.
Paraguay is: that it is a republic of South America, destination, and one November day he found himbounded on the north and northeast by Brazil; on self at a standstill on a tropical mud-bank. Some of
the southeast, southwest, and south, by the Argen- the passengers were traveling in search of game, and
tine Republic; and on the northwest by Bolivia. As the captain told us with delightful gravity that his
you ascend the river, the banks are low and wooded boat was not ashore at all: he had merely come to anl
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