Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Carony and the Orinoco , and was destroyed by the * The first of the voyages undertaken at Raleigh's expense was in 1595 ; the second , that of Laurence Keymis , in 1596 ; the third , described by Thomas Masham , in 1597 ; and the ...
... Carony and the Orinoco , and was destroyed by the * The first of the voyages undertaken at Raleigh's expense was in 1595 ; the second , that of Laurence Keymis , in 1596 ; the third , described by Thomas Masham , in 1597 ; and the ...
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... Carony , made a courageous resistance to Sir Walter Raleigh , whom the Spanish writers of the conquest know only by the name of the pirate Reali . The third town , now the capital of the province , is fifty leagues west of the ...
... Carony , made a courageous resistance to Sir Walter Raleigh , whom the Spanish writers of the conquest know only by the name of the pirate Reali . The third town , now the capital of the province , is fifty leagues west of the ...
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... Carony . Neither wine , oil , nor flour , three articles of inportation the most sought after , was received directly from Spain . Some merchants , in 1771 , sent the first schooner to Cadiz ; and since that period a direct exchange of ...
... Carony . Neither wine , oil , nor flour , three articles of inportation the most sought after , was received directly from Spain . Some merchants , in 1771 , sent the first schooner to Cadiz ; and since that period a direct exchange of ...
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... Carony , is at once interest- ing to hydrography and to European commerce . When a vessel coming from sea would enter the prin- cipal mouth of the Orinoco , the Boca de Navios , it should make the land at the Punta Barima . The right or ...
... Carony , is at once interest- ing to hydrography and to European commerce . When a vessel coming from sea would enter the prin- cipal mouth of the Orinoco , the Boca de Navios , it should make the land at the Punta Barima . The right or ...
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... Carony , namely , San Miguel de Uriala , San Felix , and San Joaquin . The last of these villages , situate on the banks of the Carony , imme- diately below the great cataract , is considered as the embar- cadero of the Catalonian ...
... Carony , namely , San Miguel de Uriala , San Felix , and San Joaquin . The last of these villages , situate on the banks of the Carony , imme- diately below the great cataract , is considered as the embar- cadero of the Catalonian ...
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