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100	1		_aSoltera, Maria
245	1	2	_aA lady's ride across Spanish Honduras
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Originally published in Blackwood's magazine."
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-22
508			_aRichard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"A lady's ride across Spanish Honduras" by Maria Soltera is a travel memoir written in the late 19th century. It follows an adventurous Englishwoman riding by mule across Honduras from the Pacific coast toward San Pedro Sula, mixing practical wayfinding with vivid portraits of ports, villages, officials, and fellow travelers. The focus is on the realities of tropical travel—storms, fever scares, rough roads, scant provisions—told with candor, humor, and a pioneering female viewpoint. The opening of the narrative finds the author weighing two routes into Honduras, rejecting the Panama passage for a cheaper, risk-managed ride from Amapala, and explaining her purpose: to oversee a school for colonists’ children near San Pedro Sula. She sails down the Mexican coast, pauses at Acapulco for a lively shore excursion—admiring the harbor, debating Mexican beauty with shipmates, hiking to glimpse Popocatépetl, and sampling hacienda hospitality—then transfers to a slower steamer where heat, lightning, an unruly family, and a mistaken draught of “congress-water” test her patience. A blustering but kind Scots traveler recovering from near-sunstroke gifts her a small revolver and coconuts before disembarking, and at La Union the noisy family leaves the ship. Arriving at Amapala, she meets the helpful consul’s office, spends a rough night in a posada (complete with a warning about snakes), engages a local lad, Eduardo, as servant, and—after buying a hammock and mosquito net—prepares to cross to Aceituña to secure mules, ending amid hard bargaining for a ladies’ saddle. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cEdinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1884
653			_aHonduras -- Description and travel
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/ladysrideacrosss00soltrich
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77296
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