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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in the middle tightto his side, and passing under his arm-pit—This weapon making awide gash in the bulls shoulder, occasioned it to draw back. Afresh bull now entered, staring wildly about, and frightened bythe clapping and hallooing of the assembled multitude. It thenran successively against the other two combatants, and from eachreceived a deep wound. A signal was now given with the trumpetfor the horseman to retire, when the men on foot began their at-tack, who struck barbed darts in every part of the animals body.The trumpet again sounding, the matador appeared, carrying inhis left hand a cloak, extended on a short stick, and in his righta two-edged sword. At the moment when the bull made furiouslyat him, he plunged his sword into its neck behind the horns, bywhich it instantly fell down dead. If the matador miss his aimhe rarely escapes Avith his life. The dead bull was immediatelydragged out of the area by three horses on a full g;dlop, whosotraces were fastened to the horns.
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ADVENTURE ON THE CORCOVADO. TnE Corcovado mountain is .situated near Rio Janeiro, thechief city of Brazil and of South America. It rises from a rangewhich forms the wall separating the city from the interior. Itssummit is lofty, its sides precipitous, and covered with a denseforest of a rich dark green. The following account of theascent of this well-known and much admired mountain, is givenby a recent rambler at Rio. Well, my companion and 1 ascended the path, and movedup the country along the line of the aqueduct. We had notwalked half an hour ere we found ourselves winding through aregular South American forest. I never in my life saw suchvegetation Were you to take a cart-load of leaves, and emptythem in a heap, I do not think they could hardly lie closer thanthey did upon the branches of this wood; and all green, of acolor most lovely, though monotonous; for here the tree in noseason is unclad, nor does the summer which they have for awinter ever sear the hue of any foliage. The

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