CHAPTER IX

Paraguay--Journey up the river--A primitive Capital--Dick the Australian--His polychrome garb--A Paraguayan Race Meeting--Beautiful figures of native women--The "Falcon" adventurers--A quaint railway--Patiño Cué--An extraordinary household--The capable Australian boy--Wild life in the swamps--"Bushed"--A literary evening--A railway record--The Tigre midnight swims--Canada--Maddening flies--A grand salmon-river--The Canadian backwoods--Skunks and bears--Different views as to industrial progress