A Year in Brazil: With Notes on the Abolition of Slavery, the Finances of the Empire, Religion, Meteorology, Natural History, EtcK. Paul, Trench, 1886 - 444 pagini |
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... appears insignificant ; whereas it is really a very nice little place , consisting of an esplanade bordered by grass and reeds , coming down to the water , and mud - banks when the tide is out . A wooden landing stage runs out into the ...
... appears insignificant ; whereas it is really a very nice little place , consisting of an esplanade bordered by grass and reeds , coming down to the water , and mud - banks when the tide is out . A wooden landing stage runs out into the ...
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... appears a very large and beautiful town . The east side is true country , and the ground rocky , and some- times precipitous ; while on the west side , which is flatter , there are quays the whole length , with hosts of craft of all ...
... appears a very large and beautiful town . The east side is true country , and the ground rocky , and some- times precipitous ; while on the west side , which is flatter , there are quays the whole length , with hosts of craft of all ...
Pagina 13
... appears to rise abruptly from the shore ; yet its great height looks insignificant from this side , owing to the whole length of the island ( fifty - three miles ) being seen at once ; and the Canadas again dwarf the Peak , which rises ...
... appears to rise abruptly from the shore ; yet its great height looks insignificant from this side , owing to the whole length of the island ( fifty - three miles ) being seen at once ; and the Canadas again dwarf the Peak , which rises ...
Pagina 18
... appears to stand alone , though the whole island is lofty . I could not gain much information about the place , for little is known , as the Brazilian Government keep it all very secret . But this much I picked up : the governor is ...
... appears to stand alone , though the whole island is lofty . I could not gain much information about the place , for little is known , as the Brazilian Government keep it all very secret . But this much I picked up : the governor is ...
Pagina 25
... appear well - built , neat , and pretty . The highest point on the line was in a tunnel , when the aneroid showed about one thousand metres above sea level ; this was in the Man- tiqueira range , one of the most important watersheds of ...
... appear well - built , neat , and pretty . The highest point on the line was in a tunnel , when the aneroid showed about one thousand metres above sea level ; this was in the Man- tiqueira range , one of the most important watersheds of ...
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afternoon Antonio appears arrived August Bahia Barbacena beautiful Botafogo Brazil Brazilian breakfast breezes Brumado cachaça camp Carandahy Ceará church Cloudless day cloudy coffee cold cool Corcovado Dense mist dinner Dom Pedro II drizzle Dull Emancipation Entirely overcast Fabr fazenda feet five forest four garden Geography of Brazil hills horses Hübn hundred reis inches insects island João July June leaving length lightning Linn maize metres midday miles milreis Minas Geraes mist early morning Morro mountains natives night noon Organ Mountains Ouro Preto p.m. heavy Pará Paraopeba passed Pauillac Pedro Pernambuco Petropolis picturesque Pitanguy Portuguese priest province Queluz railway Rio de Janeiro river road round route São Paolo says Senhor Serra showers side slavery slaves species Sub-fam sunset sunshine tatu thermometer to-day told town trees valley walk
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Pagina 13 - MARKHAM, Capt. Albert Hastings, RN— The Great Frozen Sea : A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the Alert during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6.
Pagina 3 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Pagina 8 - Sister Dora : a Biography. By MARGARET LONSDALE. True "Words for Brave Men : a Book for Soldiers and Sailors. By the late CHARLES KINGSLEY. An Inland Voyage. By RL STEVENSON. Travels with a Donkey. By RL STEVENSON. HALF-CROWN SERIES — continued. Notes of Travel : being Extracts from the Journals of Count VON MOLTKE.
Pagina 24 - THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES. I. Forms of Water : a Familiar Exposition of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers. By J. Tyndall, LL.D., FRS With 25 Illustrations. Eighth Edition. Crown 8vo, 5^. II. Physics and Politics ; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection " and " Inheritance
Pagina 16 - Tadema, etched by Leopold Lowenstam. Edgar Allan Poe's Poems. With an Essay on his Poetry by ANDREW LANG, and a Frontispiece by Linley Sambourne. Shakspere's Sonnets. Edited by EDWARD DOWDEN. With a Frontispiece etched by Leopold Lowenstam, after the Death Mask.
Pagina 13 - The Medical Guide for Anglo-Indians. Being a Compendium of Advice to Europeans in India, relating to the Preservation and Regulation of Health. With a Supplement on the Management of Children in India. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. Limp cloth, price 3* . 6d, MALDEN (HE and EE) Princes and Princesses.
Pagina 17 - Genesis. By the Rev. T. WHITELAW, MA With Homilies by the Very Rev. JF MONTGOMERY, DD, Rev. Prof. RA REDFORD, MA, LL.B., Rev. F. HASTINGS, Rev.
Pagina 19 - Memoriam." (Dedicated by Permission to the Poet-Laureate.) Fcap. Svo, 2s. The Education of the Human Race. Translated from the German of GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING.
Pagina 7 - GLOVER, F., MA— Exempla Latina. A First Construing Book, with Short Notes, Lexicon, and an Introduction to the Analysis of Sentences. Second Edition. Fcap.
Pagina 1 - By C. KEGAN PAUL, MA Oxon., and the Rev. ED STONE, MA, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Assistant Master at Eton. Second and revised edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. BAYNES (Rev. Canon RH). At the Communion Time. A Manual for Holy Communion.