Category: Travel Writing
Who has not felt at some time the lure of Spanish America, the attraction of those half-mysterious lands--Peru or Panama, Mexico or Brazil, and all that galaxy of far-off States, with the remains of their ancient civilization and their picturesque modern setting--beneath the e...
Siste, viator; draw rein: your mule will stop willingly; he is stricken with _soroche_ perhaps, the malady of the mountain, which you yourself may suffer if at this elevation, w...
4. CHAPTER IVOf all the lands of the New World, none perhaps has impressed itself more on the imagination than the picturesque and enigmatical land of Mexico. It seems to stand, in our thoug...
3. CHAPTER IIIOn Michaelmas Day, in the year 1513, a Spanish adventurer, surrounded by his followers--they had sailed from Hispaniola, or Santo Domingo, on an expedition of discovery--found h...
6. CHAPTER VIOur course still lies southward. The steamer, at times approaching sufficiently near the coast or calling at the small seaports to set down passengers or to embark merchandise--...
8. CHAPTER VIIINeither topographically nor historically is there any marked change from Peru to Bolivia. Both countries occupy the "roof of the world" here, the chain and uplands of the Cordil...
1. CHAPTER IWho has not felt at some time the lure of Spanish America, the attraction of those half-mysterious lands--Peru or Panama, Mexico or Brazil, and all that galaxy of far-off States...
5. CHAPTER VAn enormous horizon opens to the traveller who essays the voyage along the Pacific coast of South America, from Panama perhaps to the extremity of the continent; a voyage throug...
2. CHAPTER IIIt would be manifestly impossible, in the present work, to enter in detail upon the wide field of the history of the Spanish American States. Yet, just as in order to gain an in...