With the Battle Fleet: Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908Matthews, Franklin
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With the Battle Fleet: Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908
Matthews, Franklin
United States. Navy. Atlantic Fleet -- Cruise, 1907-1909
Cocktail 25 to 30 cts. peruvian equal to 15 cts. American.
Whiskey, Gin, Sherry ("hair ace") Port (Oporto) etc. all cost
the same. The Cocktails known here are, American, Martini,
Whiskey, and Fresas (strawberry).
NO! is No! just as we say it, and the harder you pronounce it
the better it is understood.
YES! si, pronounced "see."
Vaya go on, pronounced as spelt (Roseveltian,
excuse this).
Sigue no mas! (seegay no mas) Drive on!
Corida de Toros Bull-Fight
Plaza de Toros Bull Ring
Toro Bull
Torero Bull Fighter
Matador The Killer, this is the man who finally
does the trick.
Fuera Toro!!! pronounced fuera toro, "put the Bull out.
he's no good! Give us a Bull that Fights":
........!!........!!!........!!!!..........!!!!!.
(Blank spaces for american expressions if your spanish runs
short or thick.)
While it isn't as fast as Coney Island, Luna Park,
Steeplechase, nor the Hippodrome, you'll move quite as "fast"
if you get down into the Ring.
Wishing you each and all a most pleasant sojourn in this "City
of the Kings" and a bon voyage on your journey Northward.
Then began the exploration of Lima. Standing on one side of the
beautiful Plaza de Armas is the great Cathedral, which was started in
1540 and which cost $9,000,000, despite the fact that its walls are of
mud and, as one writer has said, could be run through with a fence rail
in almost any place. It was the inside decoration that cost so much, for
it has rare wood carvings, and once was fairly plastered with gold and
silver stolen by Pizarro, "the pious old cutthroat," from the Incas. You
see, Pizarro founded Lima in 1535, and although he was known as the
"Indian butcher," he began right by establishing a Cathedral, and there
his bones in a mummified condition rest. They are kept in a glass case
and are in a crypt. An attendant takes you to the coffin, lights a
candle for you to read the inscription on the case and to peer in and
you get a first rate look at a mummy.
Pizarro undoubtedly knew his business well. He gathered in the millions
upon millions that the Incas had saved up for a rainy day. It was
explained that Pizarro had found out that it never rained where he
intended to set up in Lima and therefore he told the Incas they really
had no use for all that gold and he would take it, establish a city and
give them real religion and be a missionary and all that for them.
"All of which," as a bluejacket who had been reading up the history of
the place said, "he done good and proper."
Pizarro attracted the attention of thousands of the visitors. Not all
were irreverent or flippant. Many of them paused a long time before the
mortal remains of one the greatest men in history. You felt as if you
were really at a shrine.
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