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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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HORSE-CAR, LA VICTORIA, VENEZUELA. and farming implements, the evidences of mineral wealthand the presence of wild cotton, when at one of the smallstations a crowd of black boys assembled, with fruits andflowers. The passengers were good humored and riggedthe vendors, who stuck to ridiculously high prices, and madeno sales. The train pulled out slowly and then developedan amusing scene. From seriousness and taciturnity, thevendors changed to the frivolous. They tossed theirprecious merchandise in the air, kicked it about the
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UNDER THE BAMBOO TREE. EA VICTORIA. ¥ltE: CifY 0^ CARACAS. 190 jDlatform, and danced upon it. It evidenced a new trait ofcharacter, and dispelled a little of the gloom so generallyprevalent amongst the people. Mann immediately tookadvantage of it by saluting the lonely workmen whom wepassed along the way. They liked it, and waved back.They may have thought it was Roosevelt, or possibly mis-took the swarthy face of my distinguished colleague forthat of Castro. However, it did no harm, and added ahttle human sunshine to the exceedingly effective naturalvariety. At Xalencia we took the other l(nglish road tliat was tocarry us to l*uerto Cabello and tlie BJiicchcr. It was scenicfrom start to finish, l)ut a great novelty of it was the cog-wlieel feature. In the wildest country imaginable, the waterleaping from crag to rock below, where wondrous vinesentangled themselves among the trees, we descendedfrom a height of 1,500 feet above sea-level at an angle so))reci):»itous as to niake the t

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