RIO DE JANEIRO
New York G. P. Putnam & Co.
O. CATETE
New York G. P. Putnam & Co.
BRAZIL AND LA PLATA:
THE
PERSONAL RECORD OF A CRUISE.
BY
C. S. STEWART, A. M., U. S. N.,
AUTHOR OF
“A RESIDENCE AT THE SANDWICH ISLANDS,” “VISIT TO THE SOUTH SEAS,”
“SKETCHES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,” ETC., ETC.
“Sail forth into the sea, O ship!
Through wind and wave right onward steer!
The moistened eye, the trembling lip,
Are not the signs of doubt and fear.—
Sail forth, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee!”
Longfellow.
NEW YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 321 BROADWAY.
1856.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856,
By G. P. PUTNAM & CO.,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New York.
John F. Trow,
Printer and Stereotyper, 377 & 379 Broadway,
Corner of White street.
TO
MY DAUGHTERS,
THIS VOLUME
DRAWN FROM MANUSCRIPTS ADDRESSED TO THEM,
IS AFFECTIONATELY
Inscribed.
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PREFACE.
Two inducements have led to the publication of thefollowing volume: one, the favor with which similarworks from my pen have been received; the other, thebelief that a book of fact, for light reading, would be welcometo many, amid the floods of fiction of the presentday.
It was with no purpose of making a book, that therecord from which the volume is drawn was kept; on thecontrary, the chief difficulty I have found, in fitting it forthe press, has arisen, from its being so strictly personaland private. To remodel the manuscript so as to changeits character in these respects, would have been a laborwhich I was unwilling to undertake; and to select from itsuch matter as might be at once suitable for publication,and acceptable to the general reader, without affecting theconnection and unity of the whole, has proved a task noteasily accomplished. In attempting it, I may have erredin judgment by putting into print, in some instances,viwhat might bette                        
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