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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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ice fields. Theevening we left Callao the breeze was so freshthat the passengers were wearing their overcoatsand jackets. The sun set gloriously that evening,dropping like a great red balloon into the sea,and sending rosy beams over the high chain ofthe Andes that lies just back of the coast. Fromthe deck of the Palena we could look away backover the green valley of the Rimac and see thespires of the many churches in Lima. I wishthat I might hear again the deep ring of its greatCathedral bell. Next morning we awoke to find ourselvessteaming past just such a barren coast as hadgreeted our eyes all the long journey up fromValparaiso. The minor ports on this west coastare as like as two peas, with scarcely a feature todistinguish them. The whole coast strip of Peruis a desert, except where the mountain streamsfrom the Andes have cut their way down to thesea and so permit irrigation along their banks.The coast towns give no hint of the fertile,verdant valleys which lie beyond and between
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IN THE LAND OF PANAMA HATS 161 the ranges of the mountains. In these lowlandsa great deal of sugar-cane is raised, cocoa andsugar being Perus chief exports. This afternoon, just after leaving Payta, wepassed the most western point of South Amer-ica, and with a glass could see the many derricksthat dot the oil fields of Payta. The venders ofPanama hats came aboard, and, though wedickered with a blear-eyed old Indian for a while,we decided to wait for the greater choice that wecan have in Guayaquil. A number of Guayaquilpassengers came aboard who had been down toPayta taking the sea-baths. The early morning finds us in Guayaquil.While we slept the Palena has threaded her waythirty-five miles up the broad Guayas River fromthe coast, and now lies opposite the city, the chiefport of this land of Ecuador, in English, theEquator. We rubbed our eyes in astonishmentwhen we first stepped out on deck. What anamazing transformation! Yesterday evening weleft a barren shore, cool breezes, clear ski

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