Cheranne

Personal Narrative

OF TRAVELS

TO THE

EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS

OF THE

NEW CONTINENT,

DURING THE YEARS 1799-1804,

BY

ALEXANDER DE HUMBOLDT,

AND

AIMÉ BONPLAND;

WITH MAPS, PLANS, &c.

WRITTEN IN FRENCH BY

ALEXANDER DE HUMBOLDT,

AND TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS.

VOL. III.

Second Edition.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

CONTENTS.

BOOK III.

CHAPTER VI.

Mountains of New Andalusia-Valley of Cumana-

coa-Summit of the Cocollar-Missions of the

Departure from Caripe-Mountain and Forest of

Santa Maria-Missions of Catuaro-Port of Ca-

riaco

CHAPTER IX.

Physical Constitution and Manners of the Chaymas

-Their languages-Filiation of the Nations

which inhabit New Andalusia-Pariagotoes seen

by Columbus

NOTES TO BOOK III.

A-Bibliography of the Grammars of American

Languages

B-Fragment of a Vocabulary of the Language of

the Chaymas

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