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Title: Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
Subjects: South America -- Description and travel Amazon River -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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THE AIURIMAC. /\ THE HEART OF A VOLCANO. 2U) excitement tor sho hadaccepted a ride in theengine which tlie othershad refused. She dc-chned Mr. Hartleyssupport, but folded herarms tightly as the trainseemed to plungestraight down to de-struction. When theyslackened speed andconversation was pos-sible, she turned to hercompanion with the ex-clamation, It is likebeing hurled from thecannons mouth! Inever experienced soglorious a sensation. They remained onlythree days at Lima,for the Professor didnot care for sight-see-ing, and the volcanoesclustering around Qiiitoawa3in the North, drewhis heart like a magnet.Their drives around theCiudad de los Reyes,or City of the Kings,showed them adobehouses built around
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ANDEAN IKAKS. 2 20 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IX SOUTH AMERICA. rci^ular s(;u:ircs and with some pretence to architecture. The Catlie-dral, especiallv, Avas suggestix ely Moorish, and the long colonnadesskirting three sides of tiic nine-acre Plaza )Ma3or were co(j1 andshady. They \isited Pizarros palace and the University of SanMarco, with its wonderful wood carving, on the Plaza de la Inqui-sicion. Their next stop was at Callao, celebrated for its earthquakes and itsfortress, and from this point took passage on a steamer of the PacificMail Line for Guayaquil. It was during this short voyage that Maudfelt Victorias coldness and perceived that something was wrong-She attempted to be gracious and chatt), but Victoria repulsedher advances; and )\Iaud, hurt and a little indignant at this unjustand seemingly capricious behavior, retired within herself, and, devot-ing herself to her sketching, allowed her attention to be occupiedby Mr. Hartleys vivacious description of his friends at Qiiito. They a

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