Show albes a delta a watery maze aze jany mouth mouths present in merable lair lairs for P PI rali radically cally inclined hj ii n 1 C playing hide ej k oh ili rumanian gunboats tuu bonte in loii n mouths of he the danube a bir chieftain celled called ter r nt it vied led king of the pj s reported to havo have brought n tho great river to a ID it ID all i a well to the front among lu if f the tile world the danube its miny mouth months present presents in rii ral for the in I 1 e national soia sosa n a bulletin from iti its leader header D 0 i ran mv ling in a treat great angle ad nd barrier of coni ih bulletin the called eo so blue ibe ir iro p if its load of mud and go i red from eight nations of pe p u a large delta at the tile weft west end nd I 1 the black sea thie this delta s i tit tuna funn of a huge equilateral gie tifty friy miles long on each tide side a D border ll 11 the kills ch ie south the st georges ih h 0 ille on do 10 east ie Is the tile black shor bior the two main branches ie le are subdivided time me is ag n in their never ending ei di ng III ahle nak it if trying to make wake land flow ncr ier it at the same time poet ng the triangle it Is the sulena ch eh r the danube which receives dicu all of the shipping trade es i a i cp ep channel iannel cl to he the upper riv j mu through it by the con td il a lion of the lie government of ope re rite 1 treaty of ports 1 of 1850 jed cd uie tile european commission of danube and ordered it to make mouth mouths of the great river open arlia irit atlon tion within two years evl evi i e of how little the diplomats v of the engineering problems in ed d in to making a huge river berve serve ind Js Is shown by the fact that the nilwon not only worked two years Is i still till at work deltas dreary places of f ell ad the varieties of earth surl deltas deans rank high as the most ess si to civilization mountains advil red for their inspiration des hoid hold rare beauty for those who it ft but no one goes to a delta to hunt ducks it he can help it 11 danube s delta Is particularly un che since 1 the he peasants have been ahle able to adapt it to agrical as sugar cane planters have large s i of the mississippi delta some as such as those of the amazon the consist of large Is surrounded by considerable wa but the danube enters aters run ugh a vast swamp which was al at a complete barrier to navigation ye re the he european commission of danube took a hand t 1 country that Is 13 neither land nor water the reed reeds and willow willous take cora m luand rived a d and do not catch malaria deprived dep p of timber the peasant other man put the reeds to many uses willow are used tot for basket making and for fieh fish weir weirs A plumed reed Is t cut fur for fuel and till still another kind li Is wo en into ciati or wd used as its thatch in habitant of the danube delta are mostly Ilu Itus eelan fil fishe hennen those who are irritated at fishing restriction restrictions lo 10 tile lie united state states cun can appreciate what a fis hermans paradise they live in by comparison the tile rumanian govern ment considers fishing a government mo monopoly and every catch must be brought to a government eminent cui cut tom toms homo house to bo be auctioned od off ity fly the lie construction df vf levees and piers the european commission of the danube line ling opened a channel to galati the rumanian naval port ca pable of receiving hipping shipping up to tons the traffic in and out the river 1 amount amounts to more than tons annually lly by this route ilu ru mania fifth nation in petroleum production rends end out much of her oil to the world from the loess plains of Bes Bessa sarabia rabla and southeast rumania continuation continuations of the It karth artill belt beit of Itus sla come como tou tons of cereals and oven even american corn cam which la Is a staple rumanian product before I lefor the swine channel was r mad made product products were brought to tho the sea en in lighter lighters and ml put aboard ships waiting lu in the tie roadstead ad one once heavy storm arose and nd dashed 24 willing vessels and many lighten lighters on horo with tile lie loss 1 of lives such a disaster dl di master ix 1 now imps 1 I b danube shorter than mississippi tile danube rises la in the alp allis and now flow 1750 17 mile miles to reach the th black sell en breaking through the carpathian ns nt at the tile iron gain which Is I 1 the aulbra cult bra rut cut of the ilia balkans it li Is about miles shorter than the mil als and although it drains it great part of europa outside out itile of russia the danube 1 in 14 only one fourth of that of the 1111 the nile like alie lie danube line lo 10 many a 6 recent map choing eleves the ml kulppi once divided into many sizable gnam to reach the gulf but engineers 1 have succeeded in guiding moet most of tf its force into a single 11 channel I 1 it may be hat that Ter ferrente rente the da nube nub pirate Is I 1 using the un Inhabit ed lale of serpent serpents oft the mouth of the file riser for the he headquarter headquarters of hit his fleet 1 this precipitous island about a mile in circumference figure figures in grecian history find and li Is opposed supposed to be the home of the spirit of achilles great flock flocks of white winged winced sea guelf frequent it its rocky elope together with the black makes snakes from which the island takes its name |