In Search of an Unknown Race — page 188: what you’re looking at

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176 VAN. This was rendered especially probable by the fac that she looked upon her cousin Van as no longer living. And if Tom had communicated the terrible news of her father’s probable fate, that would be an additional rea- son why Ninada would turn to Flores for sympathy. These thoughts—anything but cheerful ones—had passed in review before Van's mental vision, as he me- chanically counted out his money. He had persuaded Mr. Isaacs to give it to him partly in gold, partly in English banknotes, as American Currency was very scarce. Parrying Mr. Isaacs’s skillful questioning as to the particular Brazilian district where such fine stones were found, he hurried back to the pier and paid for his pas- sage down the river, to the very evident relief of the Portuguese captain, who seemed to have been waiting anxiously for his return. There are no hotels in Para—at least there were none while Van was there; but he succeeded in hiring a room from an American resident, who was trying his fortune in the South American city. His next movement, now that he was well supplied with money, was to provide himself with a wardrobe to last till he should reach New York, and make the other requisite changes in his outward appearance necessitated by his constant exposure. This was easily done. Before night one would have hardly recognized in the neatly dressed young tourist, sitting under a veranda and fanning himself with a Panama hat, the shabby looking voyager who only that morning had landed from an Amazon river trading nok (EOE OO KS (E(@) im