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The Other Americans; The Cities, the Countries, and Especially the People of South America


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE ROYAL MAIL AND PANAMA There are many strange ways of getting about in South America, but I doubt if any of them brings a more complete sense of contrast than comes with walking up the gangplank from the wharf at La Guayra to the deck of a Royal Mail. It is almost as hard to get out of La Guayra as to get into it; one must call on the prefect to demonstrate that one is not an escaping regicide, pay one's going-away fees, deposit in gold enough to meet quarantine expenses at the Isthmus, so that the steamship agent may violate the company's order to accept no passengers for Colon; and, after pecking at a villainous garlic-greasy luncheon on a hotel balcony looking out on the Caribbean, skirmishing through smelly streets hardly daring to draw a full breath, and awaiting with the gringo's panicky dread the bite of the yellow-fever mosquito, one has just about forgotten the pretty little capital over behind the mountains, Bolivar Plaza, and the hooded victorias twinkling through the dark, and is ready for comic-opera Latin-America at its wildest. Then you step across a bit of planking into the British Isles. It is no less than that. Your luggageis brought by a barefoot mestizo, sputtering Spanish frantically, and laboring apparently under the obsession that you have robbed him or that the steamer is going to sail without you, and it is taken by a sandy-haired Cockney steward, who says: Ticket, sir, if you please, sir, and Thank you, sir, whether one gives him half a sovereign or tells him that he ought to be hanged. You leave behind the desayuno of rolls and cafe can leche?hot milk and native coffee, black as ink?and approach a breakfast of toast and orange marmalade, eggs, cold joints, bloaters, and Yorkshire brawn. The decks are lined with steamer chairs wh...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217395281
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217395287
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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