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West Indies, South America, Spain and Portugal.- [?Forwood (George Peploe, of Forwood Brothers & Co., City of London Merchants)] Diary [of a voyage to the West Indies and South America] [&] Journal of Trip to Spain and Portugal, autograph manuscript,...
West Indies, South America, Spain and Portugal.- [?Forwood (George Peploe, of Forwood Brothers & Co., City of London Merchants and Commission Agents, of 3 Crosby Square, London, of Great House Court, East Grinstead, younger brother of Sir Arthur Bower Forwood, first baronet, politician, 1836-98, and Sir William Bower Forwood, merchant and politician, 1840-1928, 1848-1933)] Diary [of a voyage to the West Indies and South America in S.S. Colombian in 1867] [&] Journal of Trip to Spain and Portugal in the S.S. Talisman in 1868, autograph manuscript, together 96pp. excluding blanks (comprising 54pp. West Indies & South America and 42pp. Spain and Portugal), 7 full-page pen and ink illustrations (including maps of Puerto Caballo Harbour, Venezuela; Barbados Harbour; Kingstown [Kingston] Harbour, Jamaica; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Cork Harbour), slightly browned, hinges splitting, original black morocco, slightly rubbed, sm. 4to, 1867-68.
⁂ Travels to Barbados, Puerto Cabello, Curaçao, Isle of Colón (Panama), Panama City, Port Royal (Jamaica), Port au Prince (Haiti), Queenstown (Ireland), Santander, Reynosa (Reinosa) Railway, Corunna (A Coruña), Huelva, Seville & Lisbon.
Barbados. "... we arrived at Barbadoes... . In our ride we saw the sugar cane which forms the main article of report, and the cotton plant grow. The negroes here are of a heavy build with large faces & high foreheads, & not as insolent as I expected to find them, the women are far worse looking than the men but dress very well, viz, in long airy white dresses which look very neat as they walk along with a straight figure, & measured stride."
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. "The dancing being finished the Bull throwing commenced. It consisted in a bull being set loose and mem riding after it at full speed & taking hold of its tail and having got well up with it, or a little in advance by a violent twist throw it on its back, this they succeeded in doing two or three times... . After each throw a black band played."
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West Indies, South America, Spain and Portugal.- [?Forwood (George Peploe, of Forwood Brothers & Co., City of London Merchants and Commission Agents, of 3 Crosby Square, London, of Great House Court, East Grinstead, younger brother of Sir Arthur Bower Forwood, first baronet, politician, 1836-98, and Sir William Bower Forwood, merchant and politician, 1840-1928, 1848-1933)] Diary [of a voyage to the West Indies and South America in S.S. Colombian in 1867] [&] Journal of Trip to Spain and Portugal in the S.S. Talisman in 1868, autograph manuscript, together 96pp. excluding blanks (comprising 54pp. West Indies & South America and 42pp. Spain and Portugal), 7 full-page pen and ink illustrations (including maps of Puerto Caballo Harbour, Venezuela; Barbados Harbour; Kingstown [Kingston] Harbour, Jamaica; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Cork Harbour), slightly browned, hinges splitting, original black morocco, slightly rubbed, sm. 4to, 1867-68.
⁂ Travels to Barbados, Puerto Cabello, Curaçao, Isle of Colón (Panama), Panama City, Port Royal (Jamaica), Port au Prince (Haiti), Queenstown (Ireland), Santander, Reynosa (Reinosa) Railway, Corunna (A Coruña), Huelva, Seville & Lisbon.
Barbados. "... we arrived at Barbadoes... . In our ride we saw the sugar cane which forms the main article of report, and the cotton plant grow. The negroes here are of a heavy build with large faces & high foreheads, & not as insolent as I expected to find them, the women are far worse looking than the men but dress very well, viz, in long airy white dresses which look very neat as they walk along with a straight figure, & measured stride."
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. "The dancing being finished the Bull throwing commenced. It consisted in a bull being set loose and mem riding after it at full speed & taking hold of its tail and having got well up with it, or a little in advance by a violent twist throw it on its back, this they succeeded in doing two or three times... . After each throw a black band played."
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