File:One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss illustrated from photographs (1905) (14762846764).jpg

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Title: One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss ... illustrated from photographs
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Prentiss, Delight Sweetser. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company
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n ants are crawling over the table asI write, but there is a greater freedom here frominsects than I had expected. CHAPTER VII THE GREAT POWER PLANT AT PARNAHYBA Usually I do not consider food of the first im-portance in life, but in traveling it gets to be aserious matter when day after day you can havenothing that is palatable or wholesome. Themeats in this country are poor, the vegetablesfew and unappetizing, the fruits insipid, reallythe worst food I have ever known. Fortunatelywe keep well and I should not speak of the short-comings of Brazilian hotels when writing fromSan Paulo and the Grand Hotel de la Rotissiere(Sportsman), where we now are, for this is thebest we have found thus far. The rooms are notso barn-like; they seem to have been swept sometime; the management has more system and thetable is quite fair. We were half-starved whenwe came here to San Paulo, and now we wishwe could carry this hotel around with us, at leastwhile we are in Brazil. Of course we have fallen 70
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CORCOVADO RAILWAY POWER PLANT AT PARNAHYBA 71 into the eastern way of late breakfasts, so havecoffee and rolls in bed, the real breakfast ateleven, tea at four and dinner at seven oclock.I must admit that I dont like the hours for meals,unless it be the one in bed. We have been revel-ing in other good things that have come our wayin San Paulo. Our new friends have been verykind and we have dined twice with Mr. MacKen-zie, whom we met at the International, a Cana-dian who is the lawyer for the San Paulo Tram-way Light and Hydraulic Power Company. Hekeeps house with three Americans, who are at theheads of the different departments of the work.Their womanless establishment was quite a curi-osity to me. Poor fellows, they get along prettywell after a fashion, but its hard lines that theyhave no one to look after the domestic side of lifefor them. The finest of all the fine days we have haddown here was the day we went to Parnahyba tosee Mr. Coopers dam, one of the big ones of theworld, wh

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