Part of a series of articles on South American by Edward Backhouse Eastwick, later republished as Venezuela: or, Sketches of Life in a South American Republic: with the History of the loan of 1864 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1868). See also 'To Venezuela: Sailing on a Friday', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 341, 'At la Guaira', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 343, 'To Puerto Cabello', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 349, 'Caracas to Valencia', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 350, 'Traits of Republican Life', All the Year Round, XV, No. 353, 'Valencia Sight-Seeing', All the Year Round, XV, No. 359, 'Ermenia', All the Year Round, XV, No. 366, 'Major Milligan's Mistake', All the Year Round, XIX, No. 461 and 'Carabobo', All the Year Round, XIX, No. 466.