THREE YEARS IN THE PACIFIC.
Three Years in the Pacific, including Notices of Brazil, Chili, Bolivia,
and Peru; by an Officer in the United States' Navy.—(Reprinted
in London.)
“This publication, in two volumes, which has just been sent forth by Bentley,
is one of the best that has ever been written about the South American
States. The author seems to have been a man of education and strong intellect,
observant and dispassionate. His statistical matter appears to have
been maturely considered, and his historical inquiries, also, seem careful and
judicious. His forte, however, is in description, which is so much the better,
as your traveller should enable us to see through his eyes, the singular appearances
of strange men and things which he has the fortune to encounter.
The costume and manners of the multifarious inhabitants of Brazil, Chili,
Bolivia, and Peru, afforded this tourist abundant opportunities to indulge both
his power and his taste. Some of his descriptions are exceedingly lively and
pictorial; and his account of the habits of the southern ladies, both in society,
or in their masquerading out-of-door dress, of the saya and manto, are highly
amusing.”
—London Morning Herald.
