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Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ht—When Will You Build Two? Saidthe Captain—Dinner at the Queens Park Hotel—A Novel MenuCard—The Twining of the Flags—A Sad Message From Home. Bound for Trinidad! It was two hundred and five milesfrom Bridgetown to the next stop. The delightful night rungave us a chance to investigate the story of the SouthernCross. Dr. Woodbury, of Philadelphia, produced a bookwhich told us all about this marvelous mystery of theSouthern heavens. We imagined we saw the cross, butour imagination was sorely stretched, for immediately asfive stars in the accredited position across the northern coastof Venezuela were pointed out, some other observer woulddiscover another five, and so it was difficult to determine thereal thing. In the opinion of Gummere, of Trenton, whowas to participate in one of the romances of the trip, theSouthern Cross was not so much for astronomy as forgastronomy, since prolonged vigils with the stars of theSouthern seas had been especially conducive to late suppers, 106
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the: ISIvAND 01^ TRINIDAD. IO9 and as Hancock, his chum on a subsequent occasion, re-marked, inducive to matrimony, because all the stars wereas nothing to the one particular star from South Carolina,within whose lustrous sheen the lofty Jerseyman wasbasking. Are you reading much? asked a tourist of SpeakerCannon. *I am reading the heavens, said Mr. Cannon. Readingbooks is not a necessity. Listen to a note of warning! said Dr. Hough, as theparty assembled on the after deck. You fellows havetackled rum sizzles, Scotch and sodas and gin rickeys, be-lieving they will alleviate your thirst and offset the effects ofthis climate; youre taking a great risk; my advice to you allis to drink nothing. I have some advice, too, said Dr. Keely. Whats that? said Eversman. It will be hot to-morrow and dangerous to go out in thesun. As for me, said Hancock, I wont. In the morning we were again in sight of land. The mapshowed us to be but slightly ten degrees above the Equator.The sun looked threatenin

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