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Title: Three voyages of a naturalist : being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla" R.Y.S.
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Nicoll, M. J. (Michael John), 1880-1925 Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
Subjects: Valhalla (Yacht) Scientific expeditions Voyages and travels Voyages around the world Birds West Indies -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: London : Witherby & Co.
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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e. The population of Bahia and the surroundingcountry is of all nationalities, though the greaternumber appear to be negroes. All these people are of the Roman Catholicreligion, and they celebrate their Saints days bya great display of fireworks. During the twovisits of the Valhalla there were a numberof these displays, and the continual banging ofcrackers at all hours of the day and night wasinfinitely less amusing to us than to the Brazilians. On the occasion of our first visit, a great pro-cession of boats filled with priest and choristersstarted from the shore and visited most of the shipsin the harbour. When they arrived at a Brazilianship they fired off a number of crackers which theyhad with them, and one of these ships, a Brazilianman-of-war, replied with a salute of guns. On 36 VOYAGES OF A NATURALIST every Saints day a procession takes place,generally on land, but on special occasions, as onthis one, which was the day after Christmas Day,the ships in the harbour are visited.
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SOUTH TRINIDAD ISLAND, NEAR THE LANDING PLACE. (36.) CHAPTER IV. SOUTH TRINIDAD. At 6 oclock on the morning of the 3rd January,1905, the island of South Trinidad was sighted. This island is situated in the South AtlanticOcean off the coast of Brazil, lat. 20° 23 S.,long. 29° 43 W. It is volcanic, and of the sameformation as the coast of Rio de Janeiro. South Trinidad had been visited by naturaliststhree times previously. In 1868 the Italiancorvette Magenta came to the island, and twospecies of petrels were obtained and described asnew to science by Dr. Giglioli.* The second expedition was made in August,1875, by Lord Crawford (then Lord Lindsay),who, when on the way to Mauritius to observe thetransit of Venus, landed at South Trinidad andmade a small collection of birds, f Thirdly, on 13th September, 1901, the naturalistsof the Discovery, when bound for the Antarcticregions, landed there and made a collection. * Ibis, 1869, pp. 62-60. t Proceedings Zoological Society, March 2nd, 188

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