Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Parime . - El Dorado.- Legendary Tales of the Early Voyagers CHAPTER XXVI . The Llanos del Pao , or Eastern Part of the Plains of Venezuela.- Missions of the Caribs . - Last Visit to the Coast of Nueva Barcelona , Cumana , and Araya ...
... Parime . - El Dorado.- Legendary Tales of the Early Voyagers CHAPTER XXVI . The Llanos del Pao , or Eastern Part of the Plains of Venezuela.- Missions of the Caribs . - Last Visit to the Coast of Nueva Barcelona , Cumana , and Araya ...
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... Parime . - El Dorado . - Legendary tales of the early voyagers . I SHALL commence this chapter by a description of Spanish Guiana ( Provincia de la Guyana ) , which is a part of the ancient Capitania general of Caracas . Since the end ...
... Parime . - El Dorado . - Legendary tales of the early voyagers . I SHALL commence this chapter by a description of Spanish Guiana ( Provincia de la Guyana ) , which is a part of the ancient Capitania general of Caracas . Since the end ...
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... Parime , and the sources of the Orinoco , as they are marked in the most recent maps . The idea of an auriferous earth , emi- nently rich , has been connected , ever since the end of the sixteenth century , with that of a great inland ...
... Parime , and the sources of the Orinoco , as they are marked in the most recent maps . The idea of an auriferous earth , emi- nently rich , has been connected , ever since the end of the sixteenth century , with that of a great inland ...
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... Parime , traversed by the Rio Branco ) , another part of America is found , two hundred and sixty leagues toward the west , near the eastern back of the Cordillera of the Andes , equally celebrated in the expeditions to El Do rado ...
... Parime , traversed by the Rio Branco ) , another part of America is found , two hundred and sixty leagues toward the west , near the eastern back of the Cordillera of the Andes , equally celebrated in the expeditions to El Do rado ...
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... Parime , we have called El Dorado des Omaguas . No doubt the whole country between the Amazon and the Orinoco was vaguely known by the name of las Provincias del Dorado ; but in * Nuño de Chaves went from the Ciudad de la Asumpcion ...
... Parime , we have called El Dorado des Omaguas . No doubt the whole country between the Amazon and the Orinoco was vaguely known by the name of las Provincias del Dorado ; but in * Nuño de Chaves went from the Ciudad de la Asumpcion ...
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