Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Santa Fé de Bogotà , 1819 , No. 21 , p . 163. ) † The Indian name of the tribe of Uaraus ( Guaraunos of the Spaniards ) may be recognized in the Warawety ( Ouarauety ) of Raleigh , one of the branches of the Tivitivas . See Discovery of ...
... Santa Fé de Bogotà , 1819 , No. 21 , p . 163. ) † The Indian name of the tribe of Uaraus ( Guaraunos of the Spaniards ) may be recognized in the Warawety ( Ouarauety ) of Raleigh , one of the branches of the Tivitivas . See Discovery of ...
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... Santa Maria , and the Villa de Upata . Going up the Rio Aquire , and directing your course across the pastures towards the south , you reach the mission of Belem de Tumeremo , and thence the confluence of the Cu- rumu with the Rio ...
... Santa Maria , and the Villa de Upata . Going up the Rio Aquire , and directing your course across the pastures towards the south , you reach the mission of Belem de Tumeremo , and thence the confluence of the Cu- rumu with the Rio ...
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... Santa Maria , and Cupapui . Small table - lands afford a healthy and temperate climate . Cacao , rice , cotton , indigo , and sugar , grow in abundance , wherever a virgin . soil , covered with a thick coat of grasses , is subjected to ...
... Santa Maria , and Cupapui . Small table - lands afford a healthy and temperate climate . Cacao , rice , cotton , indigo , and sugar , grow in abundance , wherever a virgin . soil , covered with a thick coat of grasses , is subjected to ...
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... Santa Maria , the mission of San Miguel , and the eastern bank of the Carony , from San Buenaventura as far as Guri and the embarcadero of San Joaquin ; a space of ground which has not more than four hundred and sixty square leagues of ...
... Santa Maria , the mission of San Miguel , and the eastern bank of the Carony , from San Buenaventura as far as Guri and the embarcadero of San Joaquin ; a space of ground which has not more than four hundred and sixty square leagues of ...
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... Santa Fé , where it may become one of the articles of exportation from New Andalusia . The Catalonian monks prepare an extract of the Cortex angosturæ , which they send to the convents of their province , and which deserves to be better ...
... Santa Fé , where it may become one of the articles of exportation from New Andalusia . The Catalonian monks prepare an extract of the Cortex angosturæ , which they send to the convents of their province , and which deserves to be better ...
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