[Illustration: LITH. OF SARONY & C^o NEW YORK. RIO DE JANEIRO New York G. P. Putnam & C^o. [Illustration: LITH. OF SARONY & C^o. NEW YORK O. CATETE New York G. P. Putnam & C^o. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BRAZIL AND LA PLATA: THE PERSONAL RECORD OF A CRUISE. BY C. S. STEWART, A. M., U. S. N., AUTHOR OF “A RESIDENCE AT THE SANDWICH ISLANDS,” “VISIT TO THE SOUTH SEAS,” “SKETCHES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,” ETC., ETC. “Sail forth into the sea, O ship! Through wind and wave right onward steer! The moistened eye, the trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt and fear.— Sail forth, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee!” LONGFELLOW. NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 321 BROADWAY. 1856. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, BY G. P. PUTNAM & CO., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. JOHN F. TROW, Printer and Stereotyper, 377 & 379 Broadway, _Corner of White street_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO MY DAUGHTERS, THIS VOLUME DRAWN FROM MANUSCRIPTS ADDRESSED TO THEM, IS AFFECTIONATELY Inscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. Two inducements have led to the publication of the following volume: one, the favor with which similar works from my pen have been received; the other, the belief that a book of fact, for light reading, would be welcome to many, amid the floods of fiction of the present day.