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Trinidad
May 1891 and the islands and the mainland of South America,
the mountains of which towering up to the skies, fill away
inwards, the spit of land running into the Gulf of Paria,
and a wide expanse of Sea, La Boca Grande,
departing the Venezuelan territory at this point from
the island of Chacra care which is English soil -- we
passed through the Boca Hermosa, and the big ship
moved daily against the strong current which has
dashed so many sailing vessels against the high
cliffs close to us on her left side. The Captain himself
him took the wheel, and he looked on in the st silence
that is akin to awe on the magnificent scene -- soon
the comparatively still atmosphere we left behind,
and the strong inspirating Atlantic breeze swept
past us, and there was an end to the heat and the
deliverance hot and and depressing Trinidad atmosphere.
Later on when we got fairly away from land the
ladies dropped off one by one and two by two, and
Miss Breamton went to her cabin, for the ship began
to roll and pitch, and the ladies said they were
tired, but it was a peculiar fatigue that dimmed
the lustre of the eye, depressed the spirits, and made
the countenance to turn of a penurious white colour!