THE ROAD TO THIS CITY.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 15

THE ROAD TO THIS CITY.

Imagine a modern city of 30,000 people with no means of communication with the outer world than the smallost wheeled vehicle can use. That is the almost incredible position ef Butaramanga, a city of Columbia, 'South America, which has' just been visited by a botanical expedition. Bucaramanga occupies a platoau 3000 feet above sea level. . It has taxis and private motor-cars and well-stocked shops where, all the wants of civilised man can bo satisfied.' But the cars cannot leave the plateau.: ; : To got there, . the : botanists from Washington sailed 300 miles up the Elver Magdaleiia, travelled 25 miles by train, and climbed 40 miles up a steep mule track. The only alternative route ii by aeroplane. Both methods are regularly employed, but airfreight goes up on the backs of-mules or native porters. , •' ■2v".. . With two matchbox .covers and one drawer you can niuke this pretty little swinging cot. Fasten ,a loop of cotton at each end of the matchbox drawer, bore a hole in each of the matchbox covers. Now you want a thin piece of stick which you pass through the holes in the covers and suspend the drawer from it by the cotton'ftoopg. . Cover the boxes with fancyppaperr r arid the, cot itself with white paper. One of those wee china dolls will go nicely into- this little eradlo. ; . .