Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...the 204 OFF MALAUA QUAKAXTINE. splendid panorama which lay before us. The town is built on a circular bay;--it is on a gentle hill, and all around is a background of lofty and romantic mountains. Directly in front of us was the cathedral, a very large and imposing edifice; off to its left a ravine, between the mountains, and a plain, on which a large part of the city is built, and through which runs a small river. Off further left, are vast manufactories and lofty chimneys, which make a fine show against a blue and oloudless sky; and away to the right of the cathedral is a picturesque Moorish castle, and immense fortifications, with zig-zag roads up to them, that, as we look up at them from the deck of our yacht, seem impracticable for anything but goats or mules. The city is very fine looking, a great deal of white and green. We are pretty close in, --and what a noise and clatter! A Spanish lad, who belongs to our ship, is a native of Malaga, and he tells me that it comes from the market, which is now just opened, and hundreds are praising their fish, flesh and flowl; and he says the noise will increase till nine or ten o'clock, --and wo found it so. Now the health-officer came off, and found that we came from France, which receives ships from parts of Europe where cholera exists; so we are to perform two days' quarantine. Well, be it so, --with such a sky, such a temperature, such a prospect, I never could be better off. And there came a boat full of good things, vegetables of all sorts, but, best of all, grapes; the grapes of Muscat, the Frontinac and Sweet Water. We all felt acquiescent, and unanimously voted that quarantine was not so bad a thing as we had heard it alleged to be. But I suspect that, after all, quarantine is not always
