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“...406 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
rank and fashion congregate in the evenings. The ]
offices of the United Fruit Company stand on what are
believed to be the foundations of the first Christian
Church to be erected in America. Pleasant excursions j
can be made by rail to banana plantations by arrange- I
ment with the United Fruit Company and notably to j
Rio Frio, an old mansion standing in a magnificent
grove of royal palms. Coffee plantations in the moun-1
tains can also be visited.
Puerto Colombia or Savanilla, a seven hours’ steam to j
the east of Cartagena, which lies at the head of a large
bay, has little to commend it to visitors. It is simply j
a collection of squalid huts and shanties huddled together j
on a sandy shore. The only feature of interest is the
great steel railway pier of the Barranquilla Railway and
Pier Company, Limited, which is no less than 4,000 feet i
long, and can accommodate five large steamers at the
same time.
Trains run along this pier to Barranquilla, a...”
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