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p. 143: “A naval school, intended also for the mercantile marine, formerly existed in Valparaiso, which the minister states gave satisfaction ; but as the students received a salary from the government, it was found too expensive for the limited financial resources of the country, and was suppressed in 1847. In lieu of this academy, a naval school was established on board the frigate Chile, on a more economical plan, where officers attached to the ship are professors. As has been mentioned in the review of the war department, a number of pupils from the military school were on service in the navy, and the intention of the government is to obtain hereafter pupils from this establishment for the navy, who after receiving, as the minister remarks, “the preparatory instruction indispensable to all officers in an honourable profession, will complete their naval instruction, theoretical and practical, on board the frigate Chile.” “In order,” remarks the minister, “that the extinction of the naval school may not prejudice the mercantile marine, orders have been expedited to open a school for the purpose of teaching navigation in Valparaiso, under the direction of the captain of the port, where any who wish to prepare themselves for the duties of captains of vessels or navigators (pilotos), will receive gratuitous instruction.” In this, as well as most other provisions made by the Chilian government, a strong desire will be observed to render economical and efficient service to the country; and I confess that I have nowhere observed officials who seemed more sincerely actu-
p. 144: ated by true patriotism, unconnected with a disposition to electioneer for a higher place, or a continuation in that already held, or desire to enrich themselves by jobbing at the expense of the people.
Source
Lieutenant Isaac G. Strain, U.S.N. Cordillera and pampa, Mountain and plain, Sketches of a journey in Chile, and the Argentine provinces, in 1849. New York, 1853.
p. 143: “A naval school, intended also for the mercantile marine, formerly existed in Valparaiso, which the minister states gave satisfaction ; but as the students received a salary from the government, it was found too expensive for the limited financial resources of the country, and was suppressed in 1847. In lieu of this academy, a naval school was established on board the frigate Chile, on a more economical plan, where officers attached to the ship are professors. As has been mentioned in the review of the war department, a number of pupils from the military school were on service in the navy, and the intention of the government is to obtain hereafter pupils from this establishment for the navy, who after receiving, as the minister remarks, “the preparatory instruction indispensable to all officers in an honourable profession, will complete their naval instruction, theoretical and practical, on board the frigate Chile.” “In order,” remarks the minister, “that the extinction of the naval school may not prejudice the mercantile marine, orders have been expedited to open a school for the purpose of teaching navigation in Valparaiso, under the direction of the captain of the port, where any who wish to prepare themselves for the duties of captains of vessels or navigators (pilotos), will receive gratuitous instruction.” In this, as well as most other provisions made by the Chilian government, a strong desire will be observed to render economical and efficient service to the country; and I confess that I have nowhere observed officials who seemed more sincerely actu-
p. 144: ated by true patriotism, unconnected with a disposition to electioneer for a higher place, or a continuation in that already held, or desire to enrich themselves by jobbing at the expense of the people.
Source
Lieutenant Isaac G. Strain, U.S.N. Cordillera and pampa, Mountain and plain, Sketches of a journey in Chile, and the Argentine provinces, in 1849. New York, 1853.
