Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . NEAR TO NATURES HEART. «7 these words would be remembered with added significance, and againMaud noticed how very frail he seemed. Was there strength enouglithere to carry him through any unforeseen privations or excitementwhich might await them on this trip? All of a sudden the journeystruck her as a hazardous experiment. He might have lived ten orfifteen years longer in happy tranquillity; why had h
Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . NEAR TO NATURES HEART. «7 these words would be remembered with added significance, and againMaud noticed how very frail he seemed. Was there strength enouglithere to carry him through any unforeseen privations or excitementwhich might await them on this trip? All of a sudden the journeystruck her as a hazardous experiment. He might have lived ten orfifteen years longer in happy tranquillity; why had he taken such risksin the evening of his life? Then she realized that the stories he hadbeen telling them were of past centuries; there could be no danger insuch conimonplace voyaging as this, — and while she mused therewas a cry of interest by those looking forward, and Victoria ex-claimed that they were in sight of 88 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN SOUTH AMERICA. CHAPTER VI. THE FAZENDA DA SILVA. ^^I^^ef^fe^^^g THEY were at Santa-rem, the most importantcity in the interior of. Brazil, and to reach itthe steamer had madea turn out of the turbidwater of the Amazons,two miles up the bhickTapajos. As it lay \\\tlie deep water, wait-ing fpr boatmen to takethe Professor and hisparty ashore, the girlshad a fine panoramaof tlie cidade glis-tening white in thenoonday sun, and thepalm-thatched roofs ofthe humbler cottagesclustered along theshore. Nejrresses werelaundering: their linenin the river, their ga} turbans and neckerchiefs making bright spotsof color in the centre of the dazzling white of the heaped-up was little passing in tlie streets, for the steamer had arrived at
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