Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Parima , which , bounding the horizon south of Angostura , forms the celebrated cataracts of the Rio Caroni , and ap- proaches the Orinoco like a projecting cape near the little fort of Vieja Guyana . The populous missions of the Ca ...
... Parima , which , bounding the horizon south of Angostura , forms the celebrated cataracts of the Rio Caroni , and ap- proaches the Orinoco like a projecting cape near the little fort of Vieja Guyana . The populous missions of the Ca ...
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... Parima , which , similar to the lake of 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 ...
... Parima , which , similar to the lake of 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 ...
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... Parima . The study of the work of Father Caulin , who was the historiographer of the expedition of Solano , and who states very clearly , from the testimony of the Indians , " how the name of the river Parima gave rise to the fable of ...
... Parima . The study of the work of Father Caulin , who was the historiographer of the expedition of Solano , and who states very clearly , from the testimony of the Indians , " how the name of the river Parima gave rise to the fable of ...
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... Parima ( a land as unknown as Wangara and Dar - Saley , in Africa ) , a band of twenty leagues broad has been travelled over from north to south along the banks of the Rio Carony and the Rio Branco , in the longitude of sixty - three ...
... Parima ( a land as unknown as Wangara and Dar - Saley , in Africa ) , a band of twenty leagues broad has been travelled over from north to south along the banks of the Rio Carony and the Rio Branco , in the longitude of sixty - three ...
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... Parima on the east of the Rio Branco , is alto- gether foreign to the problem of the sources of the Orinoco . Beside the country which we have just noticed ( the Dorado de la Parime , traversed by the Rio Branco ) , another part of ...
... Parima on the east of the Rio Branco , is alto- gether foreign to the problem of the sources of the Orinoco . Beside the country which we have just noticed ( the Dorado de la Parime , traversed by the Rio Branco ) , another part of ...
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