Flotman's Object Lesson in a Peruvian Passion
Dick Ordway travels to Peru with his wife Mrs. Ordway stirring jealousy. A rival Spaniard, d Alcantara, courts her openly, provoking a deadly confrontation. Hofman, a South American wanderer, intervenes and sends a grim object lesson via Huase the Indian. Ordway later receives a letter linking the episode to Elsie Burroughs.
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Dick Ordway
Peru
Ordway
d'Alcantara
d’Alcantara
Peruven
Mrs. Ordway
Kis
Gustav Hofman
South America
Ecuador
Brazil
Yavary
Amazon
Hofman
Senor Martinez
Huase
D' Alcantara
Hotman
Yarimaca
New York
Burroughs
Elsie Burroughs
Lima
Museum of Natural History
Hidalgo
Garrett
Staten I
Liberty
Senor
What
Wrath
Huaje
Yurimacan
Yurimata War ¢Liquette
Alcantara
Elsie
Burke and Wills Expedition Began in Melbourne
The article recounts the Burke and Wills expedition starting from Melbourne in 1860 funded by Victoria to reach the Gulf of Carpentaria via the Darling River and Cooper's Creek. It describes the Menindie halt, Burke's split with staff, and dangers that foreshadowed catastrophe, plus a digression into a Peru Lima tale involving Richard Ordway and Gustav Hofman and a dangerous confrontation over a woman's past.
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Melbourne
Victoria
Gulf of Carpentaria
Darling River
Cooper's Creek
Adelaide
Menindie
Burke
Willa
King
Gray
Brahe
Wills
Gulf
Australia
Bynoe
Melbourne General Cemetery
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Flotman
John J. A Becket
Photographs By
Francis Birtles
Royal Park
Menindie, N.S.W
Peruvian
Pedro d’Alcantara Martinez
Pedro
Baia de Boulogne
Paris
Richard
Yurimaca
Pedro d'Alcantara
Walker
Frederick Walker
Rockhampton