Notes of a naturalist in South America

CHAPTER I.

Voyage across the Atlantic--Barbadoes--Jamaica--Isthmus of Panama--Buenaventura, tropical forest--Guayaquil and the river Guayas--Payta--The rainless zone of Peru--Voyage to Callao.

A voyage across the Atlantic in a large ocean steamer is now as familiar and as little troublesome as the journey from London to Paris. It rarely offers any incident worth recounting, an...