Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1904 — GRASS BOATS OF BOLIVIA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GRASS BOATS OF BOLIVIA.

On the shores of Lake Titicaca, in South America, there is more life and bustle than In almost any other spot in Bolivia, owing to the fact that during the last century the English and Americans have gone there to develop

tlie great tin deposits. A strange-look-ing boat, made of long grasses woven artistically into round braids, lends a pretty touch of color to the dullness of the scenery. These queer boats have the rare advantage of never leaking, and as they florae down the stream they look more like overgrown ears of corn than river craft

FISHERMEN OF LAKE TITICACA.