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 . ^, and here they fasten their hammocks under the scan the half dozen first-class passengers as they come on 50 THREE VA^SSAR GIRLS IX SOUTH AMERICA. board; but the boat is off and away and the Senhor is not amongthem. Victoria wraps herself in her travelling shawl, and retires to herhammock, taciturn, and even ill-humored. She purposely neglects tobid the Doctor good-night, as if he were i
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 . ^, and here they fasten their hammocks under the scan the half dozen first-class passengers as they come on 50 THREE VA^SSAR GIRLS IX SOUTH AMERICA. board; but the boat is off and away and the Senhor is not amongthem. Victoria wraps herself in her travelling shawl, and retires to herhammock, taciturn, and even ill-humored. She purposely neglects tobid the Doctor good-night, as if he were in any way to blame for A PALMERS riLCRIMAGE. 51 CHAPTER IV. A PALMER S PILGRIMAGE. IT certain!} seems like Sun-day, said Delight, tlic nextday after several hours ofsilent voyaging; for the dif-ferent members of the expe-dition were all too much in-terested in the moving pano-rama of the shore to chatmuch.^It is Palm Sunday, then,said Victoria, for see how the}spring up everywhere, over-top-ping the other foliage, and break-ing into fountains and waves otplumy green spray. Yes, the palms hold revelhere, said the Professor. ^I cancount a dozen varieties in a halthours sail — feathery Jupatisdrooping over the river side, giantMin/is, like the columns of sometemple, graceful Assais, shooting up into the air, true rocket trees,and Bhssus, with their elegant wine-glass outlines. As ProfessorAgassiz says, the remarkable common character which palms possessas a class does not prevent the most striking difference between va-
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