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Identifier: aroundaboutsouth00vinc (find matches)
Title: Around and about South America
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Vincent, Frank, 1848- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ATIONS. PAClsr.PAUK The Empress of Brazil 255 The Brazilian Ironclad Riachuelo 257 Pines, Minas-Geraes, Brazil 207 Wooden Images in a Church at Congonhas 276 A Wealthy Negress 297 General View of Bahia 305 A View from the Public Gardens 811 The King of Rapids 328 The Reef and Harbor of Pernambuco 335 A Chinese Immigrant, Georgetown 373 Colonial Produce, British Guiana 377 A Paramaribo Creole 386 A Cayenne Creole 390 A Big Tree in a Public Square, Port-of-Spain 396 A Hindoo Coolie, Port-of-Spain 400 Scene on the Railway from La Guayra to Caracas .... 409 General Guzman Blanco 418 Magdalena River Steamboats 427 Colombian Horsemen 437 A Business Street of Bogota 444 MAPS AND PLANS. Map of South America, with Routes of the Author .... 1Situation of the Argentine Republic in South America . . . 151 Chart of the Bay of Rio Janeiro 214 The Map of Brazil and the Chart of the Bay of Rio Janeiro . . 248 Chart of a Section of the Lower Amazon 352 Plan of the Railway from La Guayra to Caracas 407
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AROUND AND ABOUT SOUTH AMERICA. CHAPTER I. OUTWAKD BOTIOT). On June 10, 1885, the well-appointed and ably com-manded Pacific Mail steamship Acapulco sailed from NewYork, numbering the present writer among her passengers.Most of us were bound for the Isthmus of Panama, thesteamer conducting us to the well-known commercial port ofAspinwall. The distance is two thousand miles. We trav-ersed it in nine days—rather slow travel when the Atlanticis skimmed in six; but doubtless the Pacific Mail SteamshipCompany finds it more profitable to lodge and board its pas-sengers for a long period than to waste the extra coal thatwould be required for a short one. Our voyage was no ex-ception to those usually experienced in the tropics, where agood steamer, with good company, makes dullness a dream.In the days there is the exhilaration of brightness and breeze;in the nights, the balm of coolness and repose. If the moonbe large and brilliant, her fantastic glory gives an invitationto romance. This mi

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