The climate (except in the lowlying districts) may be described as perpetual spring, and is generally healthy. Of course, even in the cities sanitation is absent in toto, Transportation is backward, and for engaged in. with. mangrove, Damboo, beyond wh where the mahogany.
the cocoanut and other palma tower gracefully above the wild bananas, ferns and gingers that. scantily' cover the bare. sell below. Orchids, which in New York would fetch fabulous prices, literally Jabound, Though the forests contain lover a hundred kinds of timber trees, cluding many of the most valuable, ft, owing to the absence of roads fend means of transport, timber strangely enough is imported from Galitornia in considerable "quant ies.
The Smallest Republic Much more might be written about fornia, But the little progressive nation is made up of considerably over a million and a half people, (I believe, with the exception the most densely popular ed land in the Western world, In all my travels f have never entered a country where my" first impressions were' so favourable. Salvador is a nation of landowners, T was told that eighty per cent. of the people live outside the cities, and nearly all families own their own lands. And the country is agriculturally exceedingly rich fact, the native name "Cuscatfan" means "rich land." And coffee! One would believe that every individual unit of this populous' nation have contributed at least one bag apiece to our cargo, for on the wharves, in the streets, out in the country, one rarely was out of sight of the large bags of very excellent coffee awaiting shipment. Coffee has made this country wealthy.
Sidelights of Salvadorean History Salvador is easily the most progressive of all the Central American republics. It was"conquered, back in 1525, by the aforementioned Pedro de Alvarado, after a long and obstinate contest. In 1821 it threw
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