The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-02-17
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his clouds in every fantastic oonTolution.
The hills, rock ribbed
ana aneicnt-ss the sun. the wales ~
otrotelled % -l2ens3Fe I3uIetnesl bltacen,
ed round cll old oceans gray aud solitary va

the ever varying scene. I cannot dwell on
q description which no word painting can
convey to the minds of others Our iIHper-
turbable captain, who bad visited al quar-.
ters OF the globe, but now beheld this for
the first time, unhesitatingly pronounced. it
the finest view ef nature be had ever Wit
messed, To the lovers, of nature, seeking a
new sensation, a run down the shores of
Martinique IS well worth q trip from, New
Y ork
One week more on the broad Atlantic
brought US under the line, 1t was precisely
at midnight on the night of the 10th Deeemt
ber At an early hour l had taken my last
look npon the dim rays OF the North Star
and remained on deck, the sole passenger
on watch, to experience the sensation of
Jumping the equator Although life long
familiar consultations In the Northern heaY-
ems were lost to view, and the g Southern
Cross toward whose land was Fastening
was visible with its attendant Magellan
clouds, yet there was an object amid the
starry host that shone directly in the zenith
ut the moment of crossing the line, more
familiar to the inhabitants of earth than all
others In the heavens, as it is always equal
y visible from both the Northern and South
ern Hemispheres. 1t was that splendid con-
stellation spoken of by "the Man Of efz 81
IN the ancient Hebrew scriptures s. Who
gfittered with a briIliancy I had never be-
fore witnessed, and its bands or belt, which
had never been unlOssed,. hung at such a
point IN the very zenith that knew for the
first time that however distant | wandered
to the land of the sun that stretches afar
across the blazing equator, that that was one
object upon which l could gaze, where e 'er.
roamed, with the certainty that to the
loved ones and friends left behind it was
equally visible 70 ae
On the morning oF Tire 18th we sighted
the lighthouse at Salinar, near the mouth Of
the Amazon, we tackled on and off making
signals for a pilot to conduct us up the river
eighty miles to Eara, the great ehtrepot on
the lower or southern mouth of this gigantic
stream which, with its tributaries, has ten
thousand miles Of nayigable waters, and
$500 on the main stream itself. to within 4
short distance of the Pacific coast Having
read Herdon's and Gibbons explorations of
the Amazon Valley, entered the turbid
waters of this nl5mInoth stream, where It
struggles with the ocean for the iaseendency,
with all the mingled emotions of the voyager
and tourist, who visits for the first time the
greatest wonders Of the globe we inhabit
Although on the waters Of the river, vet
such Is its immense width at the point of
that the shores on either
hand were not visible from the deck OF the
steamer Soon, however, the deer. green of
the Mangrove Forest, that grows to the wat
er S. edge, became visible, and we saw the
shores Of Brazil stretching afar upon the
continent to our left, and the line Of coast
Of the great MarasO Island on our right
,,Ta reached Para at 9 at night and anchor
Al in a. fatIo,s. in front of the long gas lit
,itv tbatlav hefore us. Eager to press foot
ln Brazilian soil AM, see a.! that could be
seen during our stav, /. with a few friends
vent Immediately on shore. ', found the
,ity brilliantly lit with gas, and waie,dered !
With our landlord of1Cafe de Italian as our ;
guide, when we got good lock in a Brazil |
an ball room ladies and gentlemen ele- |
gantly cOstumed, and moving to slow and !
music, which l considered as
to those equatorial people not |
o unnecessarily to hurry through life, Us is |
he nature of Americans, equally illustrated |
~ the rapid reels, with which, even in their
lancing, they shuttle of this mortal coil
at day dawn on Sunday, the 18th, we were
lwoke by the ringing bells from a dozen
followed by the bursting Of hun
ireds of sky-rockets- We sailed oBt to pay
)ur first visit to q real tropical world. Wei
through the city and around the
suburbs, examined with unabated curiosity
he forest growth and the remarkable yege /
alton that surrounded us the tall and |
graceful palm and umbrageous mango, the |
grateful and succulent orange, the refresh !
ng pineapple and benaEa, the sweet lemon,
md sour honey, and the twenty varieties of /
ropical fruits " for which the speech of
England has no name" The style of arch
lecture is the Spanish Morisco. francesca
Cadeire laid the foundations of Para in 1916 /
--tlle same year, if we remember rightly,
hat the first exiles and entrants m0oted +
heis bark on the wild New England shore
It now has some 10000 inhabitants, is the :
capital Of the Province of the same name,
n territory one-third as large as
he United States, and IN regard to its ca
liabilities and resources, we will in subse-
Iuent letters and chapters, give a mass Of
ialuable and desirable Information, whieh
we have collected. In regard to its climate,
We would say that, although but ] deg. Is
min. south Of the equator, 1t - not 50 hot as
Texas, New Orleans or New ork in mid
where VIC have felt the dog star
age from 104 deg. to ll2 deg Fahrenheit,
whist it never rises higher at Para than go
leg. nor falls lower than 10 deg. 1t was
yet even before the sea breeze
sprang up, 1 felt conscious tlIat | had expe-
,ienced greater heat in the United States
On the first Of October last 1t was lI2 deg.
IN Texas, and l09 deg IN New
ork city. There are natural causes ac-
counting for these climatic laws which we
shall explain hereafter.
After leaving Para on the 18th and de-
scending the Amazon we stretched out again
10 sea, and iD,fve days reached Pernambuco
was eager to land, and during our stay inn
proved the time in surveying the novelties
With which we were surrounded. The city
and environs are beautifully situated and /
the houses and gas lit streets, and well filed
stores would do credit to any country
DR.. 2. p Dusseran & Son. and Air, J. A. I
Russul Of Laforche, La, three Of the party
IF nine from the South, here disembarked
The doctor had visited the country before,
brought out family and plows
ready for sugar planting in the Providee Of
PernambucO. / shall give in subsequent
letters a mass Of valuable information IN
reference to this Province.
On Sunday following, at u n, we steam
ed into the broad and beautiful Bay Of Ba
hia- Nothing that we had yet seen in Brazil,
compared with the high shores, crowned
with tropical growth, and clustering with
antique structures that surrounded its
shores The water approach, after abruptly
turning the headland to the right upon
which IS perched the light house, Is one Of
the most splendid views in Brazil lalRays
al F4.raN