File:One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss illustrated from photographs (1905) (14764935812).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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fect of the hats is much the same,with their low crowns and rolling brims, but acomparison quickly shows the difference of thequality and grain, and one quickly grows to beappreciative. The dealers have them piled ingreat stacks, doubled and flattened out so theyfit inside one another. With a deft pinch and aroll, they open them out in quick succession beforeyour eyes, and it is safe to say that by the timeyou have seen a couple of dozen, you will be be-wildered. What a time we had before we finallyselected our three! With the piles to select from,and fit, shape, quality, size and becomingness toconsider, it became a question for the wisdom ofSolomon. We almost lost our minds over them.The hats are unlined and unribboned, and youknow the wretched little dealer is trying to sellyou a twenty-dollar hat for forty if he can. Heis like Mahomet, the rug dealer,—as honest ashe can afford to be. But the three we boughtgrew even handsomer and increased in value aswe brought them toward home.
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A STREET IN LIMA IN THE LAND OF PANAMA HATS 167 While we were buying hats and the unmatch-able hammocks of South America, the Palenawas taking on eight hundred tons of cocoa-beans,a very valuable cargo, most of it on its way tochocolate-loving France. The natives who han-dle the heavy bags are powerfully developed fel-lows. The cocoa-bean is the seed of a tropicalfruit. They put it wrong end first in Spanishand call it cacao. The inside of the bean fur-nishes the well-known chocolate, and the hullmakes the cocoa. The beans look much like limabeans with a reddish brown skin, and the darkbrown center has a nutty and slightly bitter taste. One of the luxuries along the west coast is thedelicious honey we find made from the sap ofcertain palms as we make our maple syrup.F. F. P— throws caution to the winds and eatsgreat quantities of it for all the world like agreedy boy. The English colonel is with us again, and heand the captain are sitting near as I write, poringover stamps. I believ

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