South American Sketches: Or, A Visit to Rio Janeiro, the Organ Mountains, La Plata, and the Paranà |
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... o'clock in the morning of the 13th we were steaming up the Tagus into Lisbon . Four days had made a great change in the temperature : here the hills were covered with the verdure of full spring , and the heat during the middle of the ...
... o'clock in the morning of the 13th we were steaming up the Tagus into Lisbon . Four days had made a great change in the temperature : here the hills were covered with the verdure of full spring , and the heat during the middle of the ...
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... o'clock we sailed , passing very near some whales , which had been lucky enough to escape the crew of a large vessel just starting homewards with a full cargo of oil . In the course of the next two days we passed the track of the ...
... o'clock we sailed , passing very near some whales , which had been lucky enough to escape the crew of a large vessel just starting homewards with a full cargo of oil . In the course of the next two days we passed the track of the ...
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... o'clock comes ; the anchor is up , and we are off again , running down the coast with glorious skies and gently rippled seas , bound for Bahia , where we arrive early on the morning of May the 1st . Lovely is the view which meets us as ...
... o'clock comes ; the anchor is up , and we are off again , running down the coast with glorious skies and gently rippled seas , bound for Bahia , where we arrive early on the morning of May the 1st . Lovely is the view which meets us as ...
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... o'clock we sailed for Rio Janeiro , armed with a stock of southern papers , which had been left by the homeward mail . We found plenty of bad news from the Rio de la Plata , or the River , as it is generally called . Civil war between ...
... o'clock we sailed for Rio Janeiro , armed with a stock of southern papers , which had been left by the homeward mail . We found plenty of bad news from the Rio de la Plata , or the River , as it is generally called . Civil war between ...
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... o'clock next day I was rowed to the Leopard , and found the Admiral ready for a start . His barge was alongside , rigged with two tall white lattern sails , and manned by a dozen splendid blue- jackets : the sweet sea - breeze was just ...
... o'clock next day I was rowed to the Leopard , and found the Admiral ready for a start . His barge was alongside , rigged with two tall white lattern sails , and manned by a dozen splendid blue- jackets : the sweet sea - breeze was just ...
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