Explorations of the highlands of the Brazil; with a full account of the gold and diamond mines. Also, canoeing down 1500 miles of the great river São Francisco, from Sabará to the sea (1869) (14771268484)

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Title: Explorations of the highlands of the Brazil; with a full account of the gold and diamond mines. Also, canoeing down 1500 miles of the great river São Francisco, from Sabará to the sea

Year: 1869 (1860s)

Authors: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890

Subjects: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 Gold mines and mining -- Brazil Diamond mines and mining -- Brazil Brazil -- Description and travel São Francisco River Valley (Brazil) -- Description and travel

Publisher: London, Tinsley brothers

Contributing Library: Brown University Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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er cent, royalty must be reduced to 4, if profit is to be expected. ******** At Sahara we concluded our 500 miles of land journeythrough the richest and the most po^jular part of Minas Geraes.Here, however, ends the excursionist portion, much of which, Ihave said before, will soon form a section of the nineteenth-century Grand Tour. But what now comes is not yet exactlya pleasure trip down the Thames or uj) the Rhine : there aiehot suns, drenching rains, and angiy wmds to be enduied; there OITAI-. xLi.) TO CUT ABA. *t3 is before us a certain amount of hardship, privation, and fatigue,with just enough of risk to enUven the passage; and, finally,there are nearly 1300 miles to be covered by the craziest of crafts,caulked with Sahara clay. END OF VOL. I. BRADl-.UnV, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WniTEFRIARS.

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