ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.
| Departure from Valparaiso.—Coquimbo.—Caldera.—Cobija.—Iquique.—Manufacture of saltpetre.—Arica.—Port d'Islay.—Medanos, or wandering sand-hills.—Chola.—Pisco.—The Chincha or Guano Islands.—Remarks respecting the Guano or Huanu beds.—Callao.—Lima.—Carrion crows, the principal street-scavengers.—Churches and Monasteries.—Hospitals.—Charitable institutions.—Medical College.—National Library.—Padre Vigil.—National Museum.—The Central Normal School.—Great lack of intellectual energy.—Ruins of Cajamarquilla.—Chorillos.—Temple to the Sun at Pachacamác.—River Rimac.—Amancaes.—The new prison.—Bull-fights.—State of society in Peru.—The Coca plant, and the latest scientific examination respecting its peculiar properties.—The China, or Peruvian-bark tree.—Departure from Lima.—Lambajeque.—Indian village of Iting.—Païta.—Island of La Plata.—Taboga Island.—Impression made by the intelligence of Humboldt's death.—Panama.—"Opposition" Line.—Immense traffic.—The Railway across the Isthmus.—Aspinwall.—Carthagena.—St. Thomas.—Voyage to Europe on board the R.M.S. Magdalena.—Falmouth.—Southampton.—London.—Rejoin the Novara at sea.—Arrival at Gibraltar. |
337 |
| CHAPTER XXIII. |
| FROM GIBRALTAR TO TRIESTE. |
| First circumstantial details of the War of 1859.—Alterations in Gibraltar since our previous visit.—Science and Warfare.—Voyage through the Mediterranean.—Messina.—The Novara taken in tow by the War-steamer Lucia.—Gravosa.—Ragusa.—Arrival
of H.I.H. the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian at Gravosa.—Presentation of the Staff.—Banquet on board the screw-corvette Dandolo.—Pola.—Roman Amphitheatre.—Porta Aurea.—Triumphal return to Trieste.—Retrospect of the achievements and general scientific results of the Expedition.—Concluding Remarks. |
449 |
| APPENDIX—Vol. ii |
461 |
| APPENDIX—Vol. iii |
494 |
| INDEX |
519 |
| ERRATA |
543 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
VOL. III.
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PAGE |
| 1. |
Denizens of an Australian Forest |
1 |
| 2. |
Maori |
93 |
| 3. |
Native Fête to the Governor |
199 |
| 4. |
The Lasso |
280 |
| 5. |
Station on the Panama Railway |
337 |
| 6. |
The Austrian Eagle |
449 |
Denizens of an Australian Forest
XVIII.
Sydney.
Stay From 5th November To 7th December, 1858.
The politico-economical importance to England of her colonies.—Extraordinary growth of Sydney.—Public buildings.—Expeditions of discovery into the interior of Australia.—Scientific endeavours in Sydney.—Macleay's Seat at Elizabeth Bay.—Sir Daniel Cooper.—Rickety Dick.—Monument to La Pérouse at Botany Bay.—The Botanical Garden.—Journey by rail to Campbelton.—Camden Park.—German emigrants.—Wine cultivation in Australia.—Odd Fellows' Lodge at Campbelton.—Appin.—Wulongong.—Mr. Hill.—The aborigines.—Kangaroo hunting.—Coal mines in the Keira range.—An adventure in the woods.—Return to Sydney.—The Australian club.—Excursion up Hunter River as far as Ash Island,—"Nuggets."—The Novara in the dry dock at Cockatoo Island.—Reformation among the prisoners in the colony.—Serenade by the Germans in Sydney, in honour of the expedition.—Ball on board the frigate.—Political life in Sydney.—Excursion for craniological purposes to Cook-river Bay, and Long Bay.—Intercourse with natives.—Wool growing.—Attempts to introduce the Llama and Alpaca from Bolivia.—The gold-fields of the colony of New South Wales.—Is Australia the youngest or oldest part of the globe?—The convict-system and transportation as a punishment.—Departure from Sydney.—Barrier Island.—Arrival at Huraka Gulf, New Zealand.
Whoever wishes to form an accurate idea of the power and might of the British nation, and is desirous to discover the
sources of the all-important influence the "island race" exercise over the destinies of humanity, should visit, not England, but her colonies in America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. In these he will see in full and beneficial operation, that system which one of the greatest of German political economists, the ingenious Fredrick List, recommended more than thirty years ago to the German Government, when he spoke of the serious detriment the Northern country sustained year after year by the emigration en masse of skilled German labourers, and when he repeatedly urged to make agriculture under the tropics reciprocally
