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Title: The Andes and the Amazon :;bor across the continent of South America
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Orton, James
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Publisher: New York: Harper
Contributing Library: Natural History Museum Library, London
Digitizing Sponsor: Natural History Museum Library, London

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ave troubled this city; while the habitationsin the outskirts are exceedingly primitive, floored and wall-ed with split cane and thatched with leaves, the first storyoccupied by domestic animals and the second by their own-ers. The city is quite regularly laid out, the main streets on the sugar-cane. On the Upper Amazon we found the P. clarus, P.pellu-cens, and P. tuberrulatns. At Bahia, on the opposite coast, Darwin foundP. lummosus, the most common luminous insect. The City of Guayaquil. 27 running parallel to the river. A few streets are rudelypaved, many are shockingly filthy, and all of them yieldgrass to the delight of stray donkeys and goats. A num-ber of mule-carts, half a dozen carriages, one omnibus, anda hand-car on the Malecon, sum up the v^^heeled vehicles ofGuayaquil. The population is twenty-two thousand, thesame for thirty years past. Of these, about twenty arefrom the United States, and perhaps twenty-five can com-mand $100,000. No foreigner has had reason to complain
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Cathedral of Guayaquil. that Guayaquilians lacked the virtues of politeness and hos-pitality. The ladies dress in excellent taste, and are pro-verbial for their beauty. Spanish, Indian, and Negro bloodmingle in the lower classes. The city supports two smallpapers, Los Andes and La Patria, but they are usuallyissued about ten days behind date. The hourly cry of thenight-watchman is quite as musical as that of the muezzinin Constantinople. At eleven oclock, for example, theysing ■^Ave Maria purisima ! las once han dedo, nocheclara y serena. Viva lajpatria / 28 Thk Andes and the Amazon. The full name of the city is Santiago de Guayaquil.* Itis so called, first, because the conquest of the province wasfinished on the 25th of July (the day of St. James), 1633;and, secondly, after Guayas, a feudatory cacique of Atahu-allpa. It was created a city by Charles V., October 6,1535.It has suffered much in its subsequent history by fires andearthquakes, pirates and pestilence. It is situated on t

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