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Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands: With the Cape Horn route to Australia. Including notices of Lisbon, Madeira, the Canaries, and Cape Verde.Hadfield, William

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Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands: With the Cape Horn route to Australia. Including notices of Lisbon, Madeira, the Canaries, and Cape Verde.

Name: Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands: With the Cape Horn route to Australia. Including notices of Lisbon, Madeira, the Canaries, and Cape Verde.
Author: Hadfield, William

Hadfield, William

Brazil -- Description and travel; Brazil -- Economic conditions; Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Description and travel; Falkland Islands; Montevideo (Uruguay) -- Description and travel; Paraguay -- Description and travel

_Two more days’ pleasant paddling on the ocean. Approach to
  Madeira. Charming aspect of the island. Unique boats and
  benevolent boatmen. Pastoral progression in bucolic barouches
  extraordinary. Personal appearance of the inhabitants.
  Atmospheric attractions of Madeira, and absence of all natural
  annoyances. The vine-blight and its consequences, present
  and prospective, on the people at home and the consumption
  of their wine abroad. Funchal, and its urban and suburban et
  ceteras. Romance and reality of the history of the island.
  ‘Once Upon a Time.’ Importance of English residents to the
  place. Cost of living, and what you get for your money. Royal
  and illustrious visitors. Mercantile matters, and consular
  cordiality. Grave reflections in the British burial-ground._          65

                    CHAP. III.—MADEIRA TO CAPE VERDS.

  Illustration—Interior of Hotel, Teneriffe.

  _Oceanic sailing again. Halcyon weather, and modern steaming
  to the _Fortunatæ Insulæ_ of the ancients. A stare on the
  saffron-coloured singing birds. Touching Teneriffe, and
  Miltonic parallel to the Arch-Enemy. Approach to Porto
  Grande, and what we found there, especially its extensive
  accommodation for steamers. Deficiency of water the one
  drawback. Something concerning Ethiopic Serenaders under
  the line. Promethean promontory extraordinary. A memento of
  mortality midway in the world. Portuguese rewards honourably
  earned by an Englishman. Utility of Consuls in such places.
  First acquaintance with an earthquake. Verd grapes soured by a
  paternal government. Interchange of news between the Outward
  and the Homeward bound. A good propelling turn towards a
  brother of the screw._                                                74

                CHAP. IV.—CAPE ST. VINCENT TO PERNAMBUCO.

  _Progress from Porto Grande to Pernambuco. Steam triumphs
  against trade wind. Further superiority of screw over
  sail. The Argentina in a south-wester. Apropos of malaria,
  and something sanitary about Brazil. The yellow fever:
  whence comes it, and what has become of it. Quarrels about
  quarantine. Brazil in advance of the old country in these
  matters_                                                              82

                       CHAP. V.—EMPIRE OF BRAZIL.

  Illustration—Entrance to Pernambuco Harbour.

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Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands: With the Cape Horn route to Australia. Including notices of Lisbon, Madeira, the Canaries, and Cape Verde.

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