Identifier: vassargirlssam00cham (find matches)
Title: Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
Subjects: South America -- Description and travel Amazon River -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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s; and against the rapacity and cruelty of theconquerors; against the murder, and robbery, and slavery practisedby the wSpaniards and Portuguese. They were heroes; and, Protestantthat I am, I do not know that I rejoice in their expulsion from theland, especially as no better S3stem of religion than theirs has takenits place. You are really eloquent, father, Delight said. Do you wishyou were one of those old Jesuits? No, my dear, he replied gravely. Science has its mart3rs to-day, and it is honor enough to be one of them. How many men ofeducation and genius, with their hearts on fire with a love of nature,have perijhed nobly here! — Orton, in the lonely Andes, Ilartt, atRio, with others of European origin; and many besides, who broughtback with them the seeds of death, and deemed the penalty a slightone for the privilege of having contributed to the worlds advance-ment. May my life be as useful, and my last end like theirs. There was a little hush about him. The time was cominji when
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NEAR TO NATURES HEART. «7 these words would be remembered with added significance, and againMaud noticed how very frail he seemed. Was there strength enouglithere to carry him through any unforeseen privations or excitementwhich might await them on this trip? All of a sudden the journeystruck her as a hazardous experiment. He might have lived ten orfifteen years longer in happy tranquillity; why had he taken such risksin the evening of his life? Then she realized that the stories he hadbeen telling them were of past centuries; there could be no danger insuch conimonplace voyaging as this, — and while she mused therewas a cry of interest by those looking forward, and Victoria ex-claimed that they were in sight of Santarem.

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