Show parana Is most eccentric ric river re iver teare tears down islands and rears new ones washington canada tins tin a kickles clorse arher argentina lina tins the para na 04 which perform that uny nay and just now is indulging in its perennial delta trick of tearing down domn islands and rear ing up ne new onea A trip up thie this beautiful eccentric stream lot 1 described liy by nin II 11 harbour barbour in the file follow follon ing tion to the lie national geographic society we ve left buenos alrea aires one cool shoukry morning in december early eummer summer on the side wheel 12 foot draft steamer bern berni t and after being hein out of tight sight of land for hour hours in a turbid muddy sea reached the con fluence of the uruguay and parana and turned northwest est op up the latter the stream was miles wide the color of coffee with nith cream and broken by numberless marshy islands the bores shores on the tile left were viere with plantations of poplar and willow argentina argentinas S second cond city next eit morning e made our grat stop at rosario tie second largest city of argentina and a notable shir shipping pint pant for groin grain and flaxseed flais eed it Is lit located on high clay bluffs west est of the be river along hose books banks there lie huge grain warehouses and elevators eleia eleta tor tors which cut off our view of the city proper with its people a larro part of ot whom are italians the wa ma ter beside the kosarko docks Is deep dp enough for ocean freighters and the city serves as port of outlet for a great agricultural section about sun et imposing whit coed hurch hureh towers came into eight sight ahead and rounding a great rest bend we to parana capital of the brov ince of entre rios it Is a tonn a of about 60 people end cad export exports large amount amounts of hide hides call na cereiss its wharves are equipped with trav alln clans cranes crann and backed by solidly built concrete warehouses hen day came the character of 0 the country bad hall changed on ench each bide aide stretched endless reaches of low partially inundated country densely denely wooded with strange tropical trees interspersed with nith ao an occasional feath er duster palm the vilde ide flood nut vas dotted with island small among which the buoyed channel meandered Cama lotes which aich the th spanish dictionary defines as river in south america kmer Icia resembling a floating flon inland island begaii to drift by usually only a few would be joined together but our boat would out kwin ineptly axlie to avoid patches which had collected abor abort t some floating uprooted tree to torn forn insign in lit ra fret feet stranded li It landi landt a Nl menace enace camA lOtell make their ep stil baranc pa ranc in to limes of high water being byln carried curd d out into the lie current from the linniel 4 ille ninas hor clr tot many in a print grout loul I 1 no too inin min of these thew Is I 1 doin doun th the aler that strand fd ed on tho the banks near buenos ilu arg aln and nd thus a put lie menite of finkes nith an ocen minot ali annl mild boor or other animal which had become marooned vent nent anto the between parl park tind the rier and a large acree of policemen armed with nith alia cie I 1 I 1 es had to be put to mork nork kill 1111 ing aa then ih ils the third morning the tile territory of the chaco charo la Is to he the nest of ne us iti its largely unexplored swamps and jungles covering co verin tin area of at least square miles in northern argentina western paraguay Iara guny and gouth south m vearn es ern 11 bolivia 0 a alere ere it not the home of the quebracho that tree which Is 1 so important a source of tan ton nin the ebion would be even eten less known than it Is in the forenoon we reached co coe capital capitol of the province of the some same name it la is a typically spanish looking sleepy old place with nith its tine storied whitewashed hife washed brick homes showing blank nail to the nar nor row filthy roughly cobbled streets 1 immediately aboe the city the alier Is ver wide ide but thanks to high water mater we were able to stay close to the nest shore behind a n string of Is I 1 linds bresh esli water niile small cranes and large dull blue kin ahers vied for interest nith mith the alligators bask ing in on the sunny banks soon we ne reached the confluence of the parana and paraguay ahers and continued up the latter |