In Search of an Unknown Race — page 192: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXVIzi. THE VOYAGERS ON THE PARA, Tue Para, in which Van had taken passage for New York, was a bark-rigged iron steamer of about a thou~- sand tons burthen. His fellow passengers in the after cabin were for the most part residents of the Brazils. Two or three wealthy sugar planters with their families on a pleasure trip, a few merchants visiting New York on business, together with a couple of English tourists, made up the list. With the former class Van did not of course feel free to fraternize. Those of the gentlemen who were exempt from the pangs of sea-sickness spent their time in the smoking saloon. The two tourists, who were good fellows enough in the main, but had the usual British reserve and clannishness, scarcely noticed him. They had been ‘‘ doing” the Amazon, and, as a mat- ter of course, one of them was intending to write a book. ‘< «Bampton "—where have [heard the name?” thought Van. He was pacing the deck by himself on the third day from Para, and heard the younger tourist thus ad- dressed by the steamer’s first officer, who was talking with him, while the other stood by the rail smoking in silence. ‘‘Oh, I admit that the Yankees are enterprising and all that sort of thing, don’t you know,” Lord Bampton Gomichbooks (E(O)