Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Negro . They appear to depend on a volcanic focus distant from that of the Caribbee Islands . We were told by the missionaries at Javita and San Fernando de Atabapo , that in 1798 violent earthquakes took place between the Guaviare and ...
... Negro . They appear to depend on a volcanic focus distant from that of the Caribbee Islands . We were told by the missionaries at Javita and San Fernando de Atabapo , that in 1798 violent earthquakes took place between the Guaviare and ...
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... negro , hearing the cries of his master , flew to the spot , armed with a long knife ( machete ) , and plunged into the river . He forced the crocodile , by putting out his eyes , to let go his prey and to NATIVE SANG - FROID . 5 plunge ...
... negro , hearing the cries of his master , flew to the spot , armed with a long knife ( machete ) , and plunged into the river . He forced the crocodile , by putting out his eyes , to let go his prey and to NATIVE SANG - FROID . 5 plunge ...
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... Negro , appeared to me to exceed 90 or 100 inches annually . Such of the natives , therefore , as have lived beneath the misty sky of the Esmeralda and the Atabapo , know , without the smallest notion of natural philosophy , what ...
... Negro , appeared to me to exceed 90 or 100 inches annually . Such of the natives , therefore , as have lived beneath the misty sky of the Esmeralda and the Atabapo , know , without the smallest notion of natural philosophy , what ...
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... Negro and the Cassiquiare , a branch of the Orinoco ; it is a navigable * Coxcox bears also the denomination of Teo - Cipactli , in which the root god or divine is added to the name of the sign Cipactli . It is the man of the Fourth Age ...
... Negro and the Cassiquiare , a branch of the Orinoco ; it is a navigable * Coxcox bears also the denomination of Teo - Cipactli , in which the root god or divine is added to the name of the sign Cipactli . It is the man of the Fourth Age ...
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... Negro . It results from these state- ments that nearly two - thirds of the population of a province of sixteen thousand eight hundred square leagues are found concentrated between the Rio Imataca and the town of Santo Thomé del ...
... Negro . It results from these state- ments that nearly two - thirds of the population of a province of sixteen thousand eight hundred square leagues are found concentrated between the Rio Imataca and the town of Santo Thomé del ...
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