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Title: Incidents of a whaling voyage : to which are added observations on the scenery manners and customs, and missionary stations of the Sandwich and Society Islands : accompanied by numerous lithographic plates
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Olmsted, Francis Allyn, 1819-1844
Subjects: Whaling
Publisher: New-York : Published by D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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dations during the night. My bed was the soft sideof a bench which extended around the room next to thewall of the building, with a canopy of calico over me tokeep off the musquitoes. All their beds are furnishedwith these appendages, without which, it would beimpossible to sleep, on account of the number and viru-lence of these venomous insects. The third mate sleptin the hammock, a universal article of furniture in everyhouse, consistins: of a broad net work of reeds gatheredtogether at the two ends by cords with which it is sus-pended to rafters overhead. In this, the Spanish ladiesare to be seen lolling for the greater part of the time,vibrating backwards and forwards. Thus we passed thenight, roused from our slumbers every few minutes bythe sting of musquitoes, the howling of dogs, and thebraying of the donkey underneath us in reply to the sal-utations of other donkeys. Qualis strepitus ! A combi-nation of a squeal, a yell, and a grunt, thrown togetherin one inharmonious concert.
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THE ALCALDE. 169 At the first appearance of daylight, we were on themove, and after hunting up the boats crew, we hurrieddown to the beach, stopping frequently to listen to thesavage cries of the wild beasts in the dense woods uponthe opposite side of the river. The equatorial regionsof South America are infested with many varieties ofbeasts of prey, the most terrible of which is a species ofpanther, called the South American Lion, foundin great abundance in this neighborhood. We launch-ed our boat into the surf after dragging her for thirty orforty yards over the sand beach, and were soon along-side the ship. A few hours afterwards, I went ashore with the lar*board watch to spend the day. Upon arriving at thevillage we met the Alcalde, who invited me to visit hisplantation, a mile or more from the landing place.We wound our way through a thick wood, perfumedwith flowering shrubs and trees, and thronged withlizards, halting every few minutes for the eloquence ofthe Alcalde to expend i

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