Gerstckers Travels Rio De Janeiro Buenos Ayres Ride Through the Pampas
Gerstckers Travels Rio De Janeiro Buenos Ayres Ride Through the Pampas
Friedrich Gerstcker
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To me at least, who had not for a long time tasted anything like it, this simple meal appeared like a Lucullian banquet: the only drawback being, that, in the first place, I dared not put off my poncho; and secondly, that I was not yet quite at home again as to the use of knives and forks, especially of the latter. Somehow or other, the fingers of my left hand would interfere with the viands, and my little shoemaker several times shook his head most portentously. After breakfast, the shoemaker ...showed me the way to Mr. Fehrmann. This gentleman at first looked at me with consider- able astonishment, having, at first sight, scarcely expected that I should address him in German; yet his astonishment even in- / 120 A STROLL THROUGH THE STREETS OF THE TOWN. Creased when I spoke to him about my trunk, which was to have been here deposited for me. He immediately called one of his young men, and inquired of him: none, however, knew anything of it ; and the most unpleasant uncertainty was bursting upon me, that the Talisman, contrary to ray agreement with the captain and supercargo, had taken with her all my effects — linen, clothes, bed, books ; in short, all that T called mine in this world — all that I now needed, not only to cut a decent figure in Valparaiso, but also to be enabled to proceed on a decent sea voyage : all was now under weigh to California ; and I sat here, as bare and destitute as any man in the world could wish to be.
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