British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . oyed over any oth-ers visiting Rio Harbor, the weight of probability in fa-vor of the British, immediately becomes overwhelming,and our case is won! Can you conceive a simpler andmore convincing method ? The records of some of the later ascents are less nebu-lous. It is certain, for instance, that on the fourth ofJuly, 1851, a very cosmopolitan party made the perilousascent. This consisted of an American dentist—stirredby the date, and also,
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . oyed over any oth-ers visiting Rio Harbor, the weight of probability in fa-vor of the British, immediately becomes overwhelming,and our case is won! Can you conceive a simpler andmore convincing method ? The records of some of the later ascents are less nebu-lous. It is certain, for instance, that on the fourth ofJuly, 1851, a very cosmopolitan party made the perilousascent. This consisted of an American dentist—stirredby the date, and also, perhaps, by the tooth-like shape ofthe spur, his wife; a French hair-dresser and his wife;and a young Scotswoman. They celebrated their adventon the summit by a bonfire and by a flight of rockets, con-siderably to the astonishment of the people of Rio far be-low. The illumination was justified, for the peril of theclimb is undoubted. By the middle of the nineteenth century British hotelshad become something of an institution in Rio de Hotel on the Caminho Novo is said to havebeen the most comfortable. The chief rival of this was. THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL 373 the Hotel dos Estrangeiros, an establishment conductedon French lines. Several English boarding houses had been in existenceat this time for a considerable period, and one of the mostnotable of these, situated at Constantia, was kept by aMr. Heath, the son of a Kentish farmer. Heath himselfwas a sufficiently remarkable character, who spent anunbroken half century or so in Brazil without apparentlysuffering at all in health. How little his natural abun-dance of spirits were affected by the atmosphere of thesub-tropics may be gathered from the name of JollyHeath by which he was known wherever English wasspoken in Central and Southern Brazil. When Jolly Heath gave up his boarding house he re-tired to a delightful sylvan resort near he grew all species of European and tropical flow-ers; shot j
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