Not So Swanky Steam Ship to Nicaragua 1849

Submitted by tacomasteve on 12 September, 2008 - 21:40.

Ninety Bucks from New York to Nicaragua, join the 200 Jack Asses on board...http://flickr.com/photos/67674743@N00/252870748

This is from a great flicker set with Harper's New Monthly Magazine Oct 1855 on Nicaragua

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

- Innocents Abroad....Mark Twain

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