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Title: A sketcher's tour round the world
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Elwes, Robert Hullmandel & Walton
Subjects: Voyages around the world Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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d to havebeen split down by a narrow fissure, through which the riverran deep and calm, while on each side rose the perpendicularcrags, and, above, the trees nearly met over the chasm. Thesuns rays, broken by the foliage, seemed to fill the gorgewith a subdued green light, very pleasant after the glare ofa tropical sky. We entered the chasm in our canoe, andwent up till the river got very narrow, and rocks in the waterprevented the outriggers of the canoe from passing. Thecliffs nearly touched over our heads, and the Indians refusedto go further, urging that it was dangerous, as stones oftenfell from the top. I much regretted being obliged to return,for I should like to have learnt what was the termination ofthis strange channel. At Pagsinan, before dining with the Alcalde, we ascendeda hill at the back of the town, to get a view of the surround-ing country. The prospect was well worth seeing ; allaround, on the flat land, were thick groves of cocoa-nuts ■ r ■ 6- Et«oa^K Vr s ■
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H.JE lel.etlrtk ffuJI-nia-n-iel 8-WaltoTX litkog. PACrSIKA¥ RIVER COTTON MILL. 313 growing very luxuriantly; beyond, on one side, were themountains clothed with wood, on the other was the lake.The cocoa-nuts are cultivated here for the oil, of which agreat deal is made. It is clean and clear, and, instead of acandle, a tumbler of cocoa-nut oil, with a wick floating on it,is always used. In the evening we mounted our ponies, androde back to Santa Cruz, where we slept on our own mat-tresses at the Casa Reale. We left Santa Cruz early in the morning, on horseback,for a place called Pita, sending on our canoe, with all ourthings, to await us at Baia. Changing horses at Pita, weset off, in company with an armed soldier, for Calawan, tothe house of Don Inigo, the owner of a large sugar planta-tion and a cotton factory, to whom we had a letter. Thefactory, which was in full work, was fitted with Englishmachinery, and all were anxious to show it to us; but as itpresented no new features, we

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