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CHAPTER VI. 



Voyage from Buenos Ayres to Santos — Tropical vegetation in 

 Brazil — Visit to San Paulo — Journey from San Paulo to 

 Rio Janeiro — Valley of the Parahyba do Sul — Ancient 

 mountains of Brazil — Rio Janeiro — ^Visit to Petropolis — 

 Falls of Itamariti — Struggle for existence in a tropical 

 forest — The hermit of Petropolis — Morning view over the 

 Bay of Rio — A gorgeous flowering shrub — Visit to Tijuca 

 — Yellow fever in Brazil — A giant of the forest — Voyage 

 to Bahia and Pernambuco — Equatorial rains — Fernando 

 Noronha — St. \'incent in the Cape de Verde Islands — 

 Trade winds of the North Atlantic — ^Lisbon — Return to 

 England. 



About midday on June 30, I took my departure 

 from Buenos Ayres. The operation was not altogether 

 simple or to be quickly accomplished. Jolting heavily 

 over the ill-paved streets, a hackney coach carried me 

 and a fellow-traveller with our luggage to the river- 

 bank. The sight was very strange. It was a busy 

 day, and there were literally hundreds of high-wheeled 

 carts engaged in carrying passengers and goods out 

 to the boats, which lay fully half a mile from the 

 shore. When, after a delay that seemed excessive, 

 we were installed in a boat, this was pulled in a 

 leisurely fashion to the steam-tender, which lay more 

 than a mile farther out. When the hour fixed for the 



