What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

AND TO CALLOA. looked as trig as if a spar or a stay, a brace or a becket, a truck or a tackle had not been disturbed. No belle just from her toilet, rigged for the promenade, ever looked more a-taunt-o than the "Lancaster," with her head-gear tossed jantily aloft and strolling skyward, as if making coquettish incursions into the clouds. We steamed along leisurely during last night, our captain feeling his way cautiously on approaching our port of destination in the dark, and anchored in the Bay of Callao at eight this morning, a mile from shore, in seven fathoms. 71

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What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.
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Baxley, Henry Willis, 1803-1876.
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New York,: D. Appleton & company,
1865.
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South America -- Description and travel
California -- Description and travel
Hawaii -- Description and travel

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