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Title: From East Prussia to the Golden Gate
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lecouvreur, Frank, 1829-1901 Lecouvreur, Josephine Rosana Behnke, Julius Camillus, 1859-
Subjects: Voyages to the Pacific coast Ethnic groups Mines and mineral resources Agriculture Business
Publisher: New York, Los Angeles, Cal., Angelina book concern (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ufficiently bright and clear to recog-nize the high coast of Chile, which was about four milesfrom our vessel in East-Northeastern direction. We nowsailed slowly along the high and rocky coast, which wascovered with an impenetrable primitive forest down tothe sea level, until we reached Cape San Carlos by oneo clock. While it is generally necessary to give the capea wide berth, we were fortunate enough to pass rightaround it, and half an hour later we were at anchor, aquarter of a mile from Fort Corral, in one of the mostbeautiful and picturesque harbors of the world. Onehundred and twenty days and ten hours and a half hadpassed since we weighed anchor in Cuxhaven. It was with a strange, indescribable feeling that I firsttrod upon American soil. I slowly ascended the narrowpath among the steep rocks, which led from the beachinto the Chilean village Corral, but while my comradesdispersed to find wine, bread and cheese in the cottages Icontinued my way into the forest covered mountains.
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Q> 2 —- 2q THE OCEAN VOYAGE 135 My path with the dried-up bed of a mountain or foreststream, a deep cavity between mossy walls, on whichwild climbers would run up and down, swinging theirgay flowers back and forth in the evening air. Everystep in this rocky wall gave me indescribable delight, sothat I made for myself a path through weeds and bushesof fuschias, which were seemingly determined to opposemy progress the higher I went. When I had reached a height of about four hundredfeet above the sea I stopped and sat down upon the stumpof an old laurel tree, which was covered with moss.There at my feet lay the harbor in which I counted tenbarks and one three-masted vessel, all Chileans; all wereat anchor and further away was our Victoria. To myright there reflected the beautiful evening sky in the mir-ror-like mouth of the Rio Valdivia, between the highFort of Niebla and the charming island Mansera, the treecovered mountain peak of which was only surpassed inheight by the snow-capp

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