Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Mexico proves , no doubt , that the working of metals is not at all incompatible with a flourishing state of agriculture ; but , according to popular traditions , the banks of the Carony lead to the lake Dorado and the palace of " the ...
... Mexico proves , no doubt , that the working of metals is not at all incompatible with a flourishing state of agriculture ; but , according to popular traditions , the banks of the Carony lead to the lake Dorado and the palace of " the ...
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... Mexico , reflected the image of so many sumptuous edifices , has been religiously preserved by geographers . In the space of three centuries , the same traditions have been differently modified ; from ignorance of the American lan ...
... Mexico , reflected the image of so many sumptuous edifices , has been religiously preserved by geographers . In the space of three centuries , the same traditions have been differently modified ; from ignorance of the American lan ...
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... Mexico , more especially of the celebrated lake Manoa in the Dorado des Omaguas , have served to complete a picture created by the imagination of Raleigh and his two lieutenants , Keymis and Masham . The inundations of the Rio Branco ...
... Mexico , more especially of the celebrated lake Manoa in the Dorado des Omaguas , have served to complete a picture created by the imagination of Raleigh and his two lieutenants , Keymis and Masham . The inundations of the Rio Branco ...
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... Mexico , who boasted that he had taken sulphur out of the crater of the Peak of Popocatepetl , and whom the emperor Charles V. permitted to wear a burning volcano on his armorial bearings . Ordaz , named Adelantado of all the country ...
... Mexico , who boasted that he had taken sulphur out of the crater of the Peak of Popocatepetl , and whom the emperor Charles V. permitted to wear a burning volcano on his armorial bearings . Ordaz , named Adelantado of all the country ...
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... Mexico the sacrificers painted their bodies , and wore a kind of cope , with hanging sleeves of tanned human skin . On the banks of the Caura , and in other wild parts of Guiana , where painting the body is used instead of tattoo- ing ...
... Mexico the sacrificers painted their bodies , and wore a kind of cope , with hanging sleeves of tanned human skin . On the banks of the Caura , and in other wild parts of Guiana , where painting the body is used instead of tattoo- ing ...
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