CONTENTS. CHAPTER
I.
TO VENEZUELA.
— Juan — The Royal Mail Company— The Story In— Hat Island — Harbour of St. Thomas —A Battle with the Sharks — The "Virgin Islands — A Cruize among the Cemeteries —
Sailing on a Friday
terrupted
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Blockade Eunners— Voyage to La Guaira— The Death at Sea Islands
—At Anchor
CHAPTER
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II.
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At La Guaira— Origin of the name "Venezuela" The Hottest Place on Earth The National Emblem Empirical Druggists The Negro
—
Artilleryman
Mountain
— Singular
to Caracas
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CHAPTER —Hotel
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— Maquetia — Across
Nomenclature .
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the
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III.
Bells and Belles — The — Drake, the Corsair— Site of Caracas — Creole Steeds and Creole Eiders — Bolivar's Cenotaph — Environs of Caracas — The Great Earthquake— Catholic Cemetery— Ker Porter's Chapel — The Toma— Mount Calvary
At Caracas
Amande — Caraqu^nian
St.
Virgin and her Suitors
CHAPTER
IV.
— Dishonesty the best policy — How to make the —Why Republics are always borro\ving — The Bull-Fight — Public Buildings at Caracas— Cave Canem— Godoy, the Negro Wit— The Venezuelan Cabinet— Maniac Visitors — The Minis-
Traits of Republican Life
Scum
terial
rise
to the top
Breakfast
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