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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Pagina 24
... told the boots to call us , he never did , and we were only just in time ; for at 3.30 our two carriages drove up . They were large , comfortable , and showy , each having two mules , and the coachmen wearing top hats , with a broad ...
... told the boots to call us , he never did , and we were only just in time ; for at 3.30 our two carriages drove up . They were large , comfortable , and showy , each having two mules , and the coachmen wearing top hats , with a broad ...
Pagina 28
... season here During the whole time I was out I never fell in with any rattlesnakes , and never even heard of any " pumas , " though I was told of “ onças . " being from October to March ; but no one stops 28 A YEAR IN BRAZIL .
... season here During the whole time I was out I never fell in with any rattlesnakes , and never even heard of any " pumas , " though I was told of “ onças . " being from October to March ; but no one stops 28 A YEAR IN BRAZIL .
Pagina 40
... told you how these vehicles crawl along , but forgot to mention that when I asked the drivers why they did not oil the wheels to prevent the heart - rend- ing screech , they said that the oxen delighted in it , and would not go without ...
... told you how these vehicles crawl along , but forgot to mention that when I asked the drivers why they did not oil the wheels to prevent the heart - rend- ing screech , they said that the oxen delighted in it , and would not go without ...
Pagina 49
... told the good fellow I had no prospect of engaging him at present , but would give his letter to the chief . * I have another charge against the postal authorities . I wrote from Rio to my landlord here on the 21st , telling him not to ...
... told the good fellow I had no prospect of engaging him at present , but would give his letter to the chief . * I have another charge against the postal authorities . I wrote from Rio to my landlord here on the 21st , telling him not to ...
Pagina 53
... told that when the orioles sing together , as we heard the other day , it is a sign of rain , which accordingly came this morning , but fortunately very slightly . After descending from the divide some distance , following a stream ...
... told that when the orioles sing together , as we heard the other day , it is a sign of rain , which accordingly came this morning , but fortunately very slightly . After descending from the divide some distance , following a stream ...
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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.