Around and about South America . ATIONS. The Empress of Brazil 255 The Brazilian Ironclad Riachuelo 257 Pines, Minas-Geraes, Brazil 207 Wooden Images in a Church at Congonhas 276 A Wealthy Negress 297 General View of Bahia 305 A View from the Public Gardens 811 The King of Rapids 328 The Reef and Harbor of Pernambuco 335 A Chinese Immigrant, Georgetown 373 Colonial Produce, British Guiana 377 A Paramaribo Creole 386 A Cayenne Creole 390 A Big Tree in a Public Square, Port-of-Spain 396 A Hindoo Coolie, Port-of-Spain 400 Scene on the Railway from La Guayra to Caracas .... 409 General
Around and about South America . ATIONS. The Empress of Brazil 255 The Brazilian Ironclad Riachuelo 257 Pines, Minas-Geraes, Brazil 207 Wooden Images in a Church at Congonhas 276 A Wealthy Negress 297 General View of Bahia 305 A View from the Public Gardens 811 The King of Rapids 328 The Reef and Harbor of Pernambuco 335 A Chinese Immigrant, Georgetown 373 Colonial Produce, British Guiana 377 A Paramaribo Creole 386 A Cayenne Creole 390 A Big Tree in a Public Square, Port-of-Spain 396 A Hindoo Coolie, Port-of-Spain 400 Scene on the Railway from La Guayra to Caracas .... 409 General Guzman Blanco 418 Magdalena River Steamboats 427 Colombian Horsemen 437 A Business Street of Bogota 444 MAPS AND PLANS. Map of South America, with Routes of the Author .... 1Situation of the Argentine Republic in South America . . 151 Chart of the Bay of Rio Janeiro 214 The Map of Brazil and the Chart of the Bay of Rio Janeiro . 248 Chart of a Section of the Lower Amazon 352 Plan of the Railway from La Guayra to Caracas 407. AROUND AND ABOUT SOUTH AMERICA. CHAPTER I. OUTWAKD BOTIOT). On June 10, 1885, the well-appointed and ably com-manded Pacific Mail steamship Acapulco sailed from NewYork, numbering the present writer among her of us were bound for the Isthmus of Panama, thesteamer conducting us to the well-known commercial port ofAspinwall. The distance is two thousand miles. We trav-ersed it in nine days—rather slow travel when the Atlanticis skimmed in six; but doubtless the Pacific Mail SteamshipCompany finds it more profitable to lodge and board its pas-sengers for a long period than to waste the extra coal thatwould be required for a short one. Our voyage was no ex-ception to those usually experienced in the tropics, where agood steamer, with good company, makes dullness a the days there is the exhilaration of brightness and breeze;in the nights, the balm of coolness and repose. If the moonbe large and brilliant, her fantastic glory gives an
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