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“...4io POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
Company and notably to Rio Frio, an old mansion stand- I
ing in a magnificent grove of royal palms. Coffee I
plantations in the mountains can also be visited. Puerto I
Colombia or Savanilla, a seven hours’ steam to the east of I
Cartagena, which lies at the head of a large bay, has little
to commend it to visitors. It is simply a collection of
squalid huts and shanties huddled together on a sandy
shore. The only feature of interest is the great steel
railway pier of the Barranquilla Railway and Pier Com-
pany, Limited, which is no less than 4,000 feet long, and
can accommodate five large steamers at the same time.
Trains run along this pier to Barranquilla, a distance
of 17 miles, at fairly frequent intervals. The expedi-
tion to this city would be well worth making if it were
only to avoid the tedium of lying for any length of time
off such a desolate spot as Savanilla—though for fisher-
men the pier has its charms ; but the visitor who does
not wish...”
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