1926 BOGATA magazine article Bogotá Columbia, Botany expedition South America

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Selling is a 1926 magazine article about:
Bogotá Columbia
Title:  ROUND ABOUT BOGOTA
Author: Wilson Popenoe
Subtitled "A Hunt for New Fruits and Plants Among the Mountain Forests of Colombia's Unique Capital”
Quoting the first page “There was a timid knock. Arising from my first night's sleep in the chilly air of Bogotá, I opened the door and was confronted by a youth neatly dressed in a dark-gray suit of cotton drill, alpargatas, or rope sandals, and a clean white collar. He was obviously poor, but immaculate.
"Pardon the molestation," he said, as he looked up hopefully, "but I saw an announcement of your arrival in the morning paper, and I thought perhaps you might need an assistant during your stay in this region."
His eagerness, as evidenced by the early hour of his call, and his neat and business-ike appearance won me completely. Hernando Zamora was installed as assistant agricultural explorer and half an hour later we set off together for my first glimpse of the capital of Colombia.
For months I had been looking forward to reaching the Andes. Mexico and Central America had become familiar through travels, on foot and on horseback, which had taken me into out-of-the-way corners as well as the principal cities. I had wondered how it would be in South America. Would I find the same sort of people, the same food-plants, or even the same landscapes?
My mind was alert for new impressions on this first ramble about the place. I made frequent comparisons with the other Latin American cities of my acquaintance - with Havana, with Mexico, and with the capitals of Central America.
The general character of the buildings, the presence of an open square or plaza in the center of the city, without which no Latin American settlement is complete; these and other features were strongly reminiscent of the regions I had traversed north of the Isthmus. But there was a feeling of isolation about the place which was new to me.
Perhaps it lay partly in my own imagination, perhaps partly in the memory of the 12 days' journey up the Magdalena River from the Caribbean coast.
Discounting as best I could these factors, I still felt, as I gazed past substantial houses of brick and plaster to the distant crests of the Suma Paz Mountains, as I breathed deeply of the cold, rare atmosphere of these Andean heights, and as I wandered through side streets, strangely silent save for the pattering of bare feet upon the naked cobblestones-I still felt, and with a conviction that increased rather than diminished as the days passed by, that I had left behind me, far down beyond the Magdalena, those things with…"
This article is about the authors trip to Bogotá Columbia and surrounding area. There is some info on the people and history but mainly about the native fruits, trees and plant life.
7” x 10”, 34 pages, 35 B&W photos plus map
These are pages from an actual 1926 magazine.
26B1
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