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 . him, he had other fish to fry. Toasting, rubbing, and dosing under Mrs. Holmess hands soon re-stored the Professor, and in a day or two the old gentleman was as livelyas ever, and possessed with his old restlessness to be off and away onhis expedition. The Senhor and he had long arguments as to thecomparative merits of the upper Tapajos and the Madeira. TheProfessor was interested in the Madeira and 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 . him, he had other fish to fry. Toasting, rubbing, and dosing under Mrs. Holmess hands soon re-stored the Professor, and in a day or two the old gentleman was as livelyas ever, and possessed with his old restlessness to be off and away onhis expedition. The Senhor and he had long arguments as to thecomparative merits of the upper Tapajos and the Madeira. TheProfessor was interested in the Madeira and INIamorc Railroad, whichwas intended to open up Bolivia to commerce, by circling the rapids. Ar--^^- THE SEXHOR READS AND DISAPPROVES. I^^ THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN SOUTH AMERICA. and lalls wliich lb: two luindrcd and thirty miles obstruct navigation•on the Madeira. He wished to go over this ground careiulh, expect-ing to find many new fossils, and opportunity to study geologic confor-mation in the cuts made by the railroad, and to push on to the oldmission of Exaltacion in Bolivia, from whence it was his ambitiousproject to circle Lake Titicaca, then Cu/co, with a study of the Incas,and across the Andes to the coast, which they would follow up toPanama in easy stages on the Pacific Mail steamers. The Senhor objected that this trip would be too adventurous andfatiguing for the ladies, and even for the Professor himself, and urgeda substitution of the thorough exploration of the Tapajos and itstributaries, for which purpose he ofiered his little steamer, whichwould soon arrive from its wooding expedition. The Tapajos, hesaid, leads to the INIatto Grosso and the diamond district.
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