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Title: One way round South America ;
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Prentiss, Delight Sweetser, 1873-1903
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Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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l you of the trip, and you willbe obliged to listen; or shall we have to hire lis-teners, as the traveled young man did in Stock-tons amusing House of Martha? The long shed of the Retiro station at BuenosAires is a busy place from nine thirty until tenthe evening that the through Pacific train leavesfor Mendoza, at the foot of the mountains. Thistrain runs only three times a week, so the de-parture is more of an event than an ordinary,every-day train. There were a number of prettyArgentine senoritas down to see their friends off,wearing the gay Frenchy costumes which theylike, and I sat watching their bright black eyesand dramatic gestures with a great deal of pleas-ure. Mr. E— handed me a parcel at the station,which, when opened, proved to be a fine largecake. I declare that cake just saved our lives onthe long journey across the plains! By tenoclock the last good-by to our hospitable friendswas of necessity said, and we rolled away, soonleaving the city lights behind us. The moon,
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UT •UaOHE..»IUItK r TUfta, S* A* nCOAD 5TS ACROSS THE ANDES 103 which in the first quarter had hung wrong sideout in this southern sky, has now become full andlooks like itself again. It shone beautifully clear,and dimmed the radiance of the fair southerncross, which so grows in ones affection as it be-comes familiar. The Pullman sleeping cars of the Argentineare not as luxurious as our so-called palace carsof the States, showing much less effort in theway of upholstery and elaboration. But this wasnot to be regretted, and they give you a com-fortable bed which answers the purpose veryw^l. The trains make only fair time, not morethan twenty miles an hour, I should say. Youmay look all over the world and you will not findany one who will take his own time like a Span-iard, and that blood is in the Argentine in spite ofhis enterprise. Early next morning I peeped curiously out atthe new and strange landscape. Bless me, whata flat country! Flat as Holland; flatter even, ifpossible. Not

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