Eagle Rock High School - Totem Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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The natural wonders of the South Amerucan natuons are exceeded by those of no other country We un the Unuted States are proud of our Nuagara Falls but uf we should travel to Brazul we would fund the Eguozu Falls whuch are hugher larger and more beautuful than any falls un North Ameruca Thus country whuch us larger than enture North Ameruca excludung Alaska us also noted for the enormous coffee plantatuons Through the vast area of thus republuc flows the Amazon the wudest ruver un the world Along tts banks are the thuckest most umpenetrable jungles known Boluvua whuch has one of the hughest caputols un the the hughest lake Lake Tutucaca l2 5l3 feet above navugated by steamshups whuch were brought up un yards by mule back world La Paz also has sea level Thus lake us sectuons from the shup Not far from the caputol of Honduras there us a lake whuch has the color of blood lts name us deruved from the old legend whuch tells of ZO OOO lnduans who were kulled and burued un the lake theur blood permanently colorung the water Anumals thruve on thus water but uf the luquud us sealed un a bottle ul wull soon explode Located un Equador us the hughest actuve volcano It us Cotopaxu and has an elevatuon of l9 498 feet ln thus country too us the lughtest wood known balsa wood whuch us three tumes Iughter than an equal amount of cork One of the startlung sughts un thus republuc us the street of cholocate Cocoa beans are spread out to dry thus coatung the street wuth cholocate Another unterestung thung us Equadors slogan Buttonung the world A substance taguo nuts us used as a substutute for uvory un buttons and other products Venezuela Luttle Venuce was so named by the Spanush explorer Alonso de Oueda because of the resemblance of the lake dwellungs on poles to the canals of Venuce Luttle of thus resemblance remauns at the present day ln Columbua are the greatest deposuts of emeralds that have ever been dus covered Two thurds of the world s best emeralds are obtauned from thus country ln addutuon to these places of unterest the pampas of Argentuna the skuung un the Andes and the vast number of orchuds throughout South Ameruca soon catch the southern traveler s attentuon Mexuco too has her share of unterestung places We fund there the famous floatung gardens of Xochumulco whuch are the remauns of the canals buult by the ancuent Aztec cuvuluzatuon Archaeologusts have unearthed great deposuts of jade whuch are the remauns of the magnufucent cutues of gold and lade whuch were buult by the Mayan lnduans Theur carvungs have unducated that the de velopment un culture was far beyond that attrubuted to them The natural wonders of our northern neughbor country cannot be overlooked for Canada us noted for her scenery and pune forests as well as her great Hudson Bay Clacual cluffs and snow covered mountaun slopes afford udeal skuung runs un addutuon to the vacatuon delughts of many quuet beauty spots by northern lakes Thus we see that other countrues besudes our own Unuted States have many unterestung and beautuful places Perhaps thus fact wull become more realuzed and unter Amerucan travel wull be practuced to a greater extent Thus us one of the many thungs that wull help brung these two vast contunents together un the great realuzatuon of 'Amerucans All - u , u u u , . , . u 1 - u t v - 4 u u . , Q v ' 1 , . . . . . . , .t 1- , . . . . . u u. . uv . - 1 , . u- - - vu - n u v v v u v . v u - u v v . . . . . uv