Excerpt from Peru The traveler from New York to the capital of Peru, will be interested in observing that in the entire voyage of about miles he has little occasion to change his watch after the meridian observation of each day on shipboard. And when at last he reaches Lima he is barely 150 miles 10 minutes west of his start ing point. When his steamer has rounded Sandy Hook, on the outward passage, her course will be due south to the east end of Cuba, miles distant, and so close to the island that he can see the light keeper and his family on the sands watching the big ship go by. On the port hand, 50 miles away, a clear day reveals on the horizon the peaks of Haiti; then the steamer changes her course to south by west, and in a run of 600 miles crosses the Carib bean Sea to Colon. This is not an agreeable part of the trip. A following wind, the northeast trade, blows only at about the ship's rate, and the perspiring passenger feels himself in a calm of the tropics, while on the clear reach of 600 miles the sea has been pil ing up behind him with constantly increasing swell, so that when he has landed on the mole at Colon he is glad to have left the pitching thing, with its scorching atmosphere; the wind has shown itself in the white caps of the ocean, but has blown him no breath of comfort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.