Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands / With the Cape Horn route to Australia. Including notices of Lisbon, Madeira, the Canaries, and Cape Verde.

DON PEDRO II. EMPERADOR DEL BRASIL.
INCLUDING NOTICES OF LISBON, MADEIRA, THE CANARIES, AND CAPE VERDS.
BY WILLIAM HADFIELD, MANY YEARS RESIDENT IN BRAZIL, AND SECRETARY TO THE SOUTH AMERICAN AND GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
ILLUSTRATED, BY PERMISSION, FROM THE SOUTH AMERICAN SKETCHES OF SIR W. GORE OUSELEY, K.C.B., LATE HER MAJESTY’S MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY TO THE STATES OF LA PLATA, AND FORMERLY CHARGE D’AFFAIRES AT THE COURT OF BRAZIL.
AND, BY PERMISSION, FROM THE DRAWINGS OF SIR CHARLES HOTHAM, K.C.B., DURING HIS RECENT MISSION TO PARAGUAY, OF WHICH COUNTRY MUCH NEW INFORMATION IS SUPPLIED; AS ALSO OF THE REGION OF THE AMAZON.
PORTRAITS, MAPS, CHARTS, AND PLANS.
LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 1854.
LONDON: JOHN CASSELL, PRINTER, LUDGATE-HILL.

Transcriber’s Note: In the original printing, some of the illustrations were not listed in the table of contents. They have been added here.

Steam Requirements of Anglo South American commerce anterior to 1850.—How supplied then.—Inadequacy of Means to the General End, and to Lancastrian Ends in particular.—Subsequent Supply.—Liverpool still left out.—Chartered Liberty to help itself, and the consequences thereof.—Paddle Pioneer of the Ocean Fleet to the Plate.—Dates and Distances in a new Line.—What may be done by putting on the Screw for Three Months.—Fifteen Thousand Miles of Steaming, with the Author’s Notes thereon, and Suggestions for the same being continued by other people.—Epilogue apologetic.