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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... called the Gironde . Steaming up the Garonne to Bordeaux , we saw a great thunderstorm raging behind the high ground , on which a part of the eastern portion of Bordeaux stands ; and we had then about half a dozen views , each of which ...
... called the Gironde . Steaming up the Garonne to Bordeaux , we saw a great thunderstorm raging behind the high ground , on which a part of the eastern portion of Bordeaux stands ; and we had then about half a dozen views , each of which ...
Pagina 10
... called by the English " Black Horse Square , " from the colour of the bronze statue . Having obtained a guide ( for a milreis ) , we first went to the post - office in the praça , for stamps and post - cards , and next to the Posta ...
... called by the English " Black Horse Square , " from the colour of the bronze statue . Having obtained a guide ( for a milreis ) , we first went to the post - office in the praça , for stamps and post - cards , and next to the Posta ...
Pagina 12
... called " The Square of the rolling motion . " The pavement is of black and white mosaic , arranged in alternate wave - shaped curves ; the square is raised slightly in the centre , and slopes to the sides ; and the effect - perhaps ...
... called " The Square of the rolling motion . " The pavement is of black and white mosaic , arranged in alternate wave - shaped curves ; the square is raised slightly in the centre , and slopes to the sides ; and the effect - perhaps ...
Pagina 13
... called Pico de Teyde . Extending along the whole east coast of the island is a range of hills , beneath which , at the north - east , lies the capital , Santa Cruz ; these mountains rise near the Peak to a height of 2862 metres , or ...
... called Pico de Teyde . Extending along the whole east coast of the island is a range of hills , beneath which , at the north - east , lies the capital , Santa Cruz ; these mountains rise near the Peak to a height of 2862 metres , or ...
Pagina 15
... called up their respective men to the several boats ( eight in all ) , which were lowered , etc. Everything was done quickly and well . I wonder whether all would progress as calmly in the case of a real fire . June 17. - To - day we ...
... called up their respective men to the several boats ( eight in all ) , which were lowered , etc. Everything was done quickly and well . I wonder whether all would progress as calmly in the case of a real fire . June 17. - To - day we ...
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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.
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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.
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