Valparaiso is a city in Chile.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

The Negro Crossing-Sweeper, who had lost both his Legs. (Volume 2): "'The vessel called, six weeks after, at Valpariso, and I was there taken to an hospital, where I remained five months and a half. Both my legs were amputated three inches below my knees soon after I went to the hospital at Valpariso.'"