Page:Twenty years before the mast - Charles Erskine, 1896.djvu/49

, the frigate Independence, Commodore Downs, and as we passed her our hearts beat to the tune of "Hail  Columbia," played by her band. I shall have little to say of Brazil and the Brazilians, Peru and the Peruvians,  Chili and the Chilians, as I did of the slave-ships and  the pirates of the West Indies, which are so familiar to  the general reader. I shall prefer to dwell more on the sunny islands of the Pacific and the frozen regions of  the Antarctic.