South American Sketches: Or, A Visit to Rio Janeiro, the Organ Mountains, La Plata, and the Paranà |
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... night , and now the glorious sun makes the whole air redolent with life and growth as it comes perfumed from the luxurious shore . Streets and villas rise one above another on the steep and lofty banks where the city is built , and ...
... night , and now the glorious sun makes the whole air redolent with life and growth as it comes perfumed from the luxurious shore . Streets and villas rise one above another on the steep and lofty banks where the city is built , and ...
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... night . He had to pioneer his way by unfrequented routes in an almost unknown country , and to submit to delays at every addition to his flock on the march ; taking care , above all things , never to move them forward by any route till ...
... night . He had to pioneer his way by unfrequented routes in an almost unknown country , and to submit to delays at every addition to his flock on the march ; taking care , above all things , never to move them forward by any route till ...
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... night - glasses ; the occultation was ob- served , and next morning at an early hour , when I went on deck , I found that we were anchored at Montevideo . The first matter of general interest was the question of whether we should be put ...
... night - glasses ; the occultation was ob- served , and next morning at an early hour , when I went on deck , I found that we were anchored at Montevideo . The first matter of general interest was the question of whether we should be put ...
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... night I was roused by the roaring of a Pampero , which had come upon us at last in earnest . The noise was inconceivable , and though we were far up the river , the ship was knocked about more than in the whole way from Rio . She ...
... night I was roused by the roaring of a Pampero , which had come upon us at last in earnest . The noise was inconceivable , and though we were far up the river , the ship was knocked about more than in the whole way from Rio . She ...
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... night , either in town or country . For my own part I certainly could not endure it , though I was constantly obliged to try . Up the country in every shepherd's hut where a traveller stops to rest himself and his horse , the good woman ...
... night , either in town or country . For my own part I certainly could not endure it , though I was constantly obliged to try . Up the country in every shepherd's hut where a traveller stops to rest himself and his horse , the good woman ...
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