Chapter XXI: Valparaiso

Importance of Chile for German emigration.--First impressions of
Valparaiso.--Stroll through the city.--Commercial relations of
Chile with Australia and California.--Quebrada de Juan Gomez.--
The roadstead.--The Old Quarter and Fort Rosario.--Cerro Algre.--
Fire Companies.--Abadic's nursery-garden.--Campo Santo.--The
German community and its club.--A compatriot festival in honour
of the _Novara_.--Journey to Santiago de Chile.--University.--
National Museum.--Observatory.--Industrial and agricultural
schools.--Professor Don Ignacio Domey Ko.--Audience of the
President of the Republic.--Don Manuel Montt and his political
opponents.--Family life in Santiago.--Excursion trip on the
southern railroad.--Maipu Bridge.--Melepilla.--The Hacienda of
Las Esmeraldas.--Chilean hospitality.--Return to Valparaiso.--
Quillota.--The German colony in Valdivia.--Colonization in the
Straits of Magellan.--Ball at the Austrian Consul-general's in
honour of the _Novara_.--Extraordinary voyage of a damaged
ship.--Departure of the _Novara_.--Voyage round Cape Horn.--The
Falkland Islands.--The French corvette _Eurydice_.--The Sargasso
sea.--Encounter with a merchant-ship in the open ocean.--Hopes
disappointed and curiosity excited.--Passage through the Azores
channel.--A vexatious calm. 280