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Identifier: onewayroundsouth00pren (find matches)
Title: One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss ... illustrated from photographs
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Prentiss, Delight Sweetser. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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botanical garden, you see noth-ing but tiled roofs and white streets. Lisbonsbeauty and cleanliness are due to misfortunes.Plagues, earthquakes and tidal waves have vis-ited it, followed by improved restoration andgreater beauty. There are many curious sightsand historical places to visit, but we had to passthem by, as we had no time for anything but alittle shopping and the garden. History is piledup in this Iberian peninsula even as the houses arepiled up on one another in this fascinating city.My Spanish again serves me here in Portugal,and I manage to make myself understood, butPortuguese seems to be Spanish gone wrong. Idiscovered that the Portuguese use the Chineseword cha for tea. Probably they were the firstto open up trade with China and bring tea toEurope, so gave it the Chinese name. There was no mail at Lisbon, except, of course,from Sharlie, who is a wonder for catching mails.F— says she is a trump because she always getssome word to him, no matter in what corner of the
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A STREET IN LISBON SOUTHWARD THROUGH SPAIN 39 globe, and she can figure out to the very deliveryat which the postman will toss mail in at the door.F— says to tell Dad that he found some cigarsin Lisbon that are just right, but he does not daregive the brand for fear Dad will insist on im-portation. Our shopping in Spain and Portugalwas mostly in the way of Spanish books (one ofthese was El Allegoria del Capitan Ribot) andmusic, though we did purchase some of the in-crusted or Damascened steel and gold workwhich belongs to the country. CHAPTER IV ON THE S. S. THAMES FOR SOUTH AMERICA How futile it is to plan to do this and that onshipboard! One never does them. I always in-tend to accomplish wonders, but once I get aboardI find myself a veritable Spaniard for puttingthings off till manana. I can not concentrate mythoughtlets sufficiently to write about what wehave seen and are seeing. Here we are on the Thames, St. Valentinesday, lazily sailing along in the southern Atlantic,hunting

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