Attribution: later republished as  Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Venezuela: or, Sketches of Life in a South American Republic: with the History of the loan of 1864 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1868).

Part of a series of articles on South American by Eastwick published in All the Year Round. 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, 'At Caracas', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 344, 'To Puerto Cabello', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 349, '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.