Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Quito , women belonging to the highest classes of society display in the moment of peril , the same calm , the same reflecting intrepidity ? I shall mention one example only in support of this assertion . On the 4th of February , 1797 ...
... Quito , women belonging to the highest classes of society display in the moment of peril , the same calm , the same reflecting intrepidity ? I shall mention one example only in support of this assertion . On the 4th of February , 1797 ...
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... Quito , Peru , and even from Brazil and the Rio de la Plata , * for the conquest of El Dorado . Those of which the remem- brance have been best preserved , and which have most contributed to spread the fable of the riches of the Manaos ...
... Quito , Peru , and even from Brazil and the Rio de la Plata , * for the conquest of El Dorado . Those of which the remem- brance have been best preserved , and which have most contributed to spread the fable of the riches of the Manaos ...
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... Quito ? I find that Orellana saw these animals at the river Amazon , above the confluence of the Rio Negro , consequently in a climate very different from that of the table - land of the Andes . The fable of an army of Omaguas mounted ...
... Quito ? I find that Orellana saw these animals at the river Amazon , above the confluence of the Rio Negro , consequently in a climate very different from that of the table - land of the Andes . The fable of an army of Omaguas mounted ...
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... southern direction on the eastern back of the Andes , before the tradi- tion of El Dorado was spread among the conquistadores . This tradition , as we have noticed above , had its origin in THE GILDED KING . " 45 the kingdom of Quito.
... southern direction on the eastern back of the Andes , before the tradi- tion of El Dorado was spread among the conquistadores . This tradition , as we have noticed above , had its origin in THE GILDED KING . " 45 the kingdom of Quito.
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... Quito , where Luis Daza ( 1535 ) met with an Indian of New Grenada , who had been sent by his prince ( no doubt the zippa of Bogotá , or the zaque of Tunja ) , to demand assistance from Atahualpa , inca of Peru . This Ambassador boasted ...
... Quito , where Luis Daza ( 1535 ) met with an Indian of New Grenada , who had been sent by his prince ( no doubt the zippa of Bogotá , or the zaque of Tunja ) , to demand assistance from Atahualpa , inca of Peru . This Ambassador boasted ...
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