Deck and port, or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California : with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco (1850)
IMA. excel in music, and are often married to gentlemen of distinction and wealth. Saturday, April 4. The college boys in Lima look like little military captains. They strut about in cocked hats and laced coats ; the sword only is wanting. The last thing with which you would associate them would be… … But all the little boys belonging to families of note are dressed here like gentlemen. Your first impres- sion would be, that you had arrived among a race of Lilliputians. But a closer observation shows you that these little well-dressed gentlemen are infantines, let loose from their nurses’ arms.…
Congress (Frigate : 1841-1862) · Voyages to the Pacific coast · Travel
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