TRIP TO THE AMAZON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 22 (Supplement)

TRIP TO THE AMAZON.

NEW OFFER TO TOURISTS. SIX WEEKS' EXCURSION". OFF CIVILISATION'S TRACK. What would the adventurous sea-cap-tains of Elizabeth's time have said it' they had been told that their descendants would visit the virgin forests of Brazil in a tourist steamer ? That is what has been happening this year, says i. London paper. A British steamship company is sending one of its finest vessels, a liner of 7000 tons, on a six weeks' tour from Liverpool, in the course of which she will sail up the Amazon river as far as Mauaos, a comparatively new field for tourists. The. Amazon is the largest, probably the longest, certainly the widest river in the world. It is 100 miles from bank to hank where the fresh water begins. More than once 'sailors shipwrecked in the cstuarv have imagined themselves in the open sea, and have suffered tortures of thirst until some desperate spirit among them has drunk the water and found it sweet and fresh.

The Amazon flows between magniCcv-ut, forests, where the anaconda, gliding easily through lianas impenetrable to man, hunts the prey that he will swallow alive. Its yellow waters harbour the turtle, the alligator, and giant fish.