. Around and about South America. ave been extended in every direction, the navigation ofrivers has been promoted, slavery has been abolished, andfree education has -been made universal throughout the em-pire. Long life and prosperity, then, to Dom Pedro dAlcan-tara, Constitutional Emperor and Defender of Brazil, whosejubilee year draws nigh! I took the opportunity while at Rio to visit the largestironclad in the Brazilian navy, which was then lying atanchor in the harbor. It was the steam-frigate Biachuelo,the admirals flag-ship. I found myself heartily welcomedat the gangway, and was present
. Around and about South America. ave been extended in every direction, the navigation ofrivers has been promoted, slavery has been abolished, andfree education has -been made universal throughout the em-pire. Long life and prosperity, then, to Dom Pedro dAlcan-tara, Constitutional Emperor and Defender of Brazil, whosejubilee year draws nigh! I took the opportunity while at Rio to visit the largestironclad in the Brazilian navy, which was then lying atanchor in the harbor. It was the steam-frigate Biachuelo,the admirals flag-ship. I found myself heartily welcomedat the gangway, and was presented to a lieutenant, who,having studied for some years in England, spoke the languagefluently, and not only showed me all over the great man-of-war and explained everything that was new to me, but alsoinvited me to remain to breakfast with himself and brotherofficers. The Biachuelo was built in Chatham, England, andeverything about her equipment, from stem to stern, is thor-oughly English. She is of six thousand tons burden, sharp. THE EMPEROR OF BRAZIL. 257 at both ends, with three decks, three masts, two funnels, andthree thousand horse-power, which enables her to steam six--teen knots an hour. Her length is three hundred feet,breadth fifty feet, depth thirty feet. She has two turrets,upon which her armor is eleven inches in thickness. Else-where the thickness is eight inches. Her armament consistsof four nine-inch Armstrong, four four-inch, and eighteenJSTordenfelt guns. Upon her upper deck she carries a greatiron torpedo-boat, and between decks she has several machineswhich shoot forth torpedoes by means of compressed crew complete numbers four hundred men. There aretwo guns pointing forward in the bow, and two in the sterndirected backward. On either side, at a short distance fromthe bow, are the large turrets which, together with their mas-sive contents, are turned by machinery. The huge cannonare so nicely adjusted that a child can move them up or down,to the righ
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