In 1880 this home was built in Boonville, Missouri. It sits on the bluff on High Street just a block or two from the downtown shops and the bridge over the Missouri River to New Franklin. This house would have stood there when, after the disastrous trip to Peru, Paul Boyton floated the Missouri River from Montana all the way to St. Louis in a rubber suit, arriving at the Mississippi in November. George was still in Peru.
Along the Missouri River
Building Knols
I've taken most of my blog posts and have converted them into knols, the new Google competitor to wikipedia. Knol is still very beta, but I wanted to see if it would be easier to develop the sections of my work in that format. One drawback, it doesn't allow RSS feeds to help anyone keep abreast of the changes I have made via Google reader or similar device. And it as yet does not have a way to organize the "articles" or knols in any set fashion, so that the chapter or story sequence would be easy to follow. (Also a problem within blogger).
It does allow commenting like blogger, and also links to other articles by other authors that may be on the same subject matter. So far, this capability is not too accurate, possibly only 50% (or less) of the time does it point to anything else of similar interest.
There is quite an extensive search capability in the "search toolkit" and one can limit to just one author's knols if one is so inclined.
I will still use this blog to post items in current events that relate to this story, but will probably post future parts of the story on the knol site. The following link should get you to the table of contents of:
A New Sloop for Paul Boyton?
On November 24th, 1880, while Paul tended his affairs in Peru, his brother Michael agitated for land reform in Ireland.
Paul prepared for the imminent battle as the Chileans placed themselves in a strategic position to attack Lima and its surrounding towns. At this point, the Cochrane, the Huascar and the Princess Louise still blockaded the harbor at Callao.
On the 25th, the foreign senior naval officers based off Callao met and decided to move the ships with refugees to Ancon. They asked the governments of Peru and Chile, if they could send representatives to the headquarters of both belligerents. Lt. Commander D. W. Mullan of the Adam sailed to Pisco in the British ship the Osprey and N.T.Houston of the Lackawanna joined General Piérola.
On the 26th, the General Commandant requested that Commandant Sanchez give Luis Reybaud five pounds for the renting of a sloop and the use of the train to take the sloop from Callao to Chorrillos. (Yábar Acuña, 2001, pg. 561)
Yábar Acuña also cites another source that lists items that may have been destined for this sloop: a lantern, 30 gallons of water, a grill, a coffee maker, 50 pounds of cookies, 50 pounds of meat, 25 pounds of potatoes, a jar of conserved vegetables, 25 pounds of wood, 4 tin plates, 4 tin cups. 4 knives, 4 forks, 4 spoons, 1 map of Peru by Barrera, a flag and a compass, a 25 pound anchor, etcetera.
Who were the four on the boat? Could this have been Luis Reybaud, George Kiefer, Paul Boyton and?
Resources:
Yábar Acuña, Francisco. 2001. Las Fuerzas Sutiles y la defensa de costa durante la Guerra del Pacifico. Lima: Dirección de Intereses Marítimos. 650 pp.
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