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Title: Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
Subjects: South America -- Description and travel Amazon River -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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t is very striking, hanging high up on the trunk just under thegreen vault of leaves. The palm is the providence of the natives of South America,said the Professor; it serves them for raiment, shelter, food, drink,fuel, cordage for hammocks, nets and fishing-tackle, its wax forcandles, and its oil for illuminating purposes, while beautifying thelandscape with their graceful forms. What a delightful Palmers jMlgrimage it would be, mused theDoctor, to follow the palm around the globe, through all the coun-tries to which it is a native, — to And the date palm in the oases ofAfrica, to note its sister varieties shading the ruins of ancient Egypt,to walk through Palmyra, the city of palms, and Elim, where wereforty j)alm trees; to lind it again in Persia, in the hanging gardensof Babylon, in India, and, in short, in all of the fascinating landsof the Orient. That is almost too extensive a tour even for my imagination, re-plied Victoria. IIow many varieties of palms are there, Professor.-
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A PALMERS PILGRIMAGE. cc About tivc huiielicd arc knovsn. The must complete treatise onthe subject is the monograph by Martius, u large work containingover two hundred colored plates; but it was written in the earlyhall of this century, and many new species ha\ e been disco\ered.I recommend you to begin a monograph ot your own. There would be a certain litness in your taking up the study olpalms, said the Doctor, lor you remember that the early significa-tion of the palm-branch was victory, and your name is Victoria. But I do not deserve it, Victoria replied. I remember readinga poem in a magazine long ago; only one verse remains with me: O fainting soul that readest well this story, Longing- through pain for deaths benignant balm,Think not to win a heaven of rest and glory If thou shalt reach its gates without thy palm. It was so unusual for \^ictoria to express a sentiment like this, thatall were silent for a moment. It was her own voice that broke thestillness with some merry remar

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