Sight-seeing in South America . By Miss Mary Morinon Mules with Wide Panniers with their wide panniers of raw hides, the pack trains ofmules laden with all kinds of articles, trudging up themountain roads, and their sleepy drivers wearing broadsombreros and heavy ponchos, or cape-like blankets, keepalert the interest of those carrying cameras. Valparaiso U7 Among the places of especial interest is the EscnelaNaval, or the Naval Academy of Chile. It is Annapolison a small scale, having about two hundred pupils. Theschool is located on a high terrace, and looks down uponthe hav in which are usua
Sight-seeing in South America . By Miss Mary Morinon Mules with Wide Panniers with their wide panniers of raw hides, the pack trains ofmules laden with all kinds of articles, trudging up themountain roads, and their sleepy drivers wearing broadsombreros and heavy ponchos, or cape-like blankets, keepalert the interest of those carrying cameras. Valparaiso U7 Among the places of especial interest is the EscnelaNaval, or the Naval Academy of Chile. It is Annapolison a small scale, having about two hundred pupils. Theschool is located on a high terrace, and looks down uponthe hav in which are usually several Chilean By Ml, A. E. Pmtison A Gaucliu Wca a IcncliL. On a neighboring- hill is the old Catholic cemetery inwhich are buried the American sailors that were killedin the fight in the harbor, on March 28, 1814, betweenthe American frigate Essex, under Captain DavidPorter, and the English ships Phoebe and Essex had been damaging English commerce alongthe Pacific, when it was blockaded in the harbcM- of \al-paraiso by tlie more powerful I^ngiish boats, and. indisregard of the laws of neutrality, was attacked. l-romthe bluffs the whole population of \alparaiso watchedfor two hours the heroic defense by the Americans, 148 Sightsceing in South America against the guns of longer range of the EngHsh. Whenihe decks were running with blood and the Essex wasin flames, Captain Porter surrendered. The American
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