1933 PARAGUAY magazine article, South America, people, history, etc

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Selling is a 1933 magazine article about:
Paraguay
Title: River-Encircled Paraguay
Author: Harriet Chalmers Adams
This article is about the author’s visit to Paraguay. It has lots of history plus present-day (1933) sights. Lots of info on the geography and natives.
Quoting the first page “It is four days by steamer from Buenos Aires to Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. We might have made the journey by rail in 52 hours, on a train that crosses the Parana River by ferry from Zarate, 56 miles from Buenos Aires, to Ibicuy; passes through the fertile Argentine Mesopotamia, between the Parana and Uruguay rivers, to the Argentine frontier; recrosses to the Paraguayan shore on another ferry, and continues through undulating grass and woodland to Asuncion.
However, remembering with pleasure our first voyage up the Parana 14 years earlier, we chose the steamer to carry us to this remote, river-encircled country, so rich in dramatic history and so little known to North Americans.
For three days after sailing we had Argentina's richest agricultural provinces on either side. The river, at first gulflike, narrowed between low-lying islands fringed with feathery pampas grass.
On our former voyage, at flood season, I had seen the shore villages nearly submerged, the stream strewn with floating islets, known as camalotes, formed of earth, weeds, and roots, upon which carpinchos, or capybaras, snakes, and other upriver creatures were borne seaward. The harbor of Montevideo had been so choked at that time with these strange floating islands that traffic was seriously hampered.
Our present voyage was in the floodless month of July, midwinter at this end of the hemisphere.
Fortunately, each day brought us nearer a mild climate. Our fellow passengers were mostly home-bound Paraguayans. There were several Argentine families escaping from cold weather and a few commercial travelers. All spoke the musical tongue of Cervantes, the speech of some 100,000,000 people to-day.
The man next me at table declared he thought English a brutally harsh language. "Imagine," he said, "trying to say shrimps when you mean camarones !"
Dinner, an elaborate seven-course meal, was not planned for vegetarians: thin soup of meat stock, cold meat and salad, thick soup of meat and vegetables, meat and greens, cheese and fruit paste, bananas and mandarin oranges, coffee, liquors.
That instrument of torture, the river-steamer piano, sounded far into the night; but it seemed not to disturb the card and domino players, who gathered in the saloon under a placard announcing that gambling was strictly prohibited.
There are travelers who always wear an historic lens. I confess to an unflagging interest in the old Conquistadores. We followed in the wake of Sebastian Cabot's sturdy caravel, plowing its way up the uncharted waters of the Plata to the Parana (Mother of the Sea), and on to the Paraguay, at the gates of the Tropics.
It was in 1526 that Cabot, a Venetian pilot in the service of Spain, followed the lead of Juan de Solis and Magellan, and…"
7” x 10”, 32 pages, 36 B&W photos
These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1933 magazine.
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