WITH A TOUR ACROSS THE PAMPAS ΤΟ BUENOS AYRES, &c. BY L. HUGH DE BONELLI, OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S LEGATION. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1854. TRAVELS IN BOLIVIA. CHAPTER I. Departure from Southampton-Arrival at JamaicaScene at the Theatre-An Execution-Slaves-St. Thomas-The Continent of South America first appears in sight-Santa Marta-Cartagena-Chagres. ON a bright morning in the beautiful month of May, when the soft and genial atmosphere has served to banish from our minds the severities of a past winter, and its long train of consequences, and we become young again, and sanguine in the anticipation of warmer days and brighter skies, I packed up bag and baggage to undertake, as a voluntary exile, for the space of three or more years, a voyage to the shores of the distant Pacific. I was VOL. I. B |