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A Ride Across a Continent (Volume 2); A Personal Narrative of Wanderings Through Nicaragua and Costa Rica

A Ride Across a Continent (Volume 2); A Personal Narrative of Wanderings Through Nicaragua and Costa Rica

Boyle, Frederick

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1154276635
ISBN13: 9781154276633
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1868. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. Sailing on the lake--Capt. Pim's opinion--Canal projects--The old transit--Seeing the world--Lost in the jungle--Second attempt to make a Frio exploration--Muyogalpa--Indian belles--Coyote-- Why dogs bark--Tropical nature--Ometepec--Free lover sect--Squirrel story--Congo story--Snake story--Story of a priest and a murder--King vulture--Antiquities--Burials--Pottery-- Ornaments--The lust of the eyes and the pride of life--Across the lake--Narrow escape--Two pictures--A lonely life among the orange trees--San Juan del Sur--Rivas--Political affairs--The filibusters--General Walker--Stirring news--Ride to Granada. The Lake of Nicaragua is, without any exception, the most dangerous sheet of water. I ever sailed over. The Transit Company has already lost seven steamers in it, every one of which was simply blown ashore or swamped. Winds gather behind the volcanic peaks of Ometepec, Madera, and Zapatero, and sweep round with whirlwind violence from half a dozen points at once. A calm is rare, but a storm or tornado is the 'commonest thing possible, and within ten minutes the waves will reach their highest fury. Well may Captain Bedford Pim cry he will never despise a freshwater sailor after cruising on Lake Nicaragua. I never saw sea or ocean that could compare with it in violence or treachery. Virgin Bay, which we reached in a very pretty cyclone, is situated on the narrow neck of land which separates the lake from the cove of San Juan del Sur on the Pacific Ocean. The broad, well-kept Transit road from one debarcation to the other is only twelve miles long, and the insignificance of this impediment between the two waters has naturally drawn most canal projects to this spot. A most complete survey was made by Captain Baily at the desire of General Morazan...

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