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Brazil and La Plata: the personal record of a cruise
Stewart, Charles Samuel, 1795-1870
CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Departure from Cape Henry — Sacrifices In Naval Life — Evening Prayers — First Casualty — Sabbath at Sea — Scene in the Gulf Stream — My Ship and Shipmates — The Crew, 1 CHAPTER II. Great Caycos — Case of Punishment — Tho Cat-o'-nine Tails — Moral Effects of the Lash — Evening on board a Man-of-War — Scenes off Havana — Entrance into Port, 18 CHAPTER III. The Prisoners of Contoy — Excitement at Havana — The Captain General and Chief of Police — Visits of Ceremony — Drive on Shore — The Volante — Paseo and Champs de Mars — Evening Promenade — Visit to Regia by Night — The Captive Filibusters — Destiny of Cuba, 26 CHAPTER IV. Gulf of Florida — The Wreckers — Incidents in tho Sick Bay — Maury's Wind and Current Charts — The Doldrums — Crossing the Line — Neptune Aboard — Dreams of Home — Impediments to Piety on board a Man-of-War — Giving up Grog, 42 CHAPTER V. Cape Frio — Coast Scene — Bay of Rio — Reminiscence of the Past — City of Rio — Yellow Fever — Equipages — Drive to Botafogo — A Tropical nome, 68 CHAPTER VI. First Impressions at Rio — Mixture of Races — Senate Chamber — Imperial Legislature — Form of Government — Council of State — Ministry — Nobility — The Court in State — The Emperor and Empress, 70 CHAPTER VII. Cemetery of Gamboa — Governor Kent — Tomb of the Hon. William Tudor — Island and Fortress of Villegagnon — Discovery of Brazil — Huguenot Colonists — Treachery of Villegagnon — Progress in Civilization — State of the Empire — Its Dangers and Safeguards, 80 CHAPTER VIII. Praya Grande and Praya San Domingo — Bay of St Francis Xavier — Passage to the Plata — Montevideo — Sea-Birds — Cape Pigeon — Albatross — Booby — Stormy Petrel — Dolphin — Nautilus — Portuguese Man-of-War, 90 CHAPTER IX. Rio de Janeiro — The City Palace — Scenes at Court — Mode of Presentation — Character of the Emperor and Empress — Their Habits of Life — Suppression of Slave Trade — Illness of a Sailor-boy — First Death on board the Congress, 104 CHAPTER X. All S
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