Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... covered with a buckler of hard and dry scales , is extremely sensitive in the only parts of his body which are soft and unprotected , such as the eyes , the hollow underneath the shoulders , the nostrils , and beneath the lower jaw ...
... covered with a buckler of hard and dry scales , is extremely sensitive in the only parts of his body which are soft and unprotected , such as the eyes , the hollow underneath the shoulders , the nostrils , and beneath the lower jaw ...
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... covered with a thick coat of grasses , is subjected to cultivation . The first Christian settlements in those coun- tries are not , I believe , of an earlier date than 1721. The elements of which the present population is composed are ...
... covered with a thick coat of grasses , is subjected to cultivation . The first Christian settlements in those coun- tries are not , I believe , of an earlier date than 1721. The elements of which the present population is composed are ...
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... covered with plates of massy gold , have long since disap- peared ; but the geographical apparatus serving to adorn the fable of El Dorado , the lake Parima , which , similar to the lake of Mexico , reflected the image of so many ...
... covered with plates of massy gold , have long since disap- peared ; but the geographical apparatus serving to adorn the fable of El Dorado , the lake Parima , which , similar to the lake of Mexico , reflected the image of so many ...
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... covered * El valle del Dorado . Pineda relates , " que mas adelante de la provincia de la Canela se hallan tierras muy ricas , adonde andaban los hombres armados de pieças y joyas de oro , y que no havia sierra , ni montana . " [ Beyond ...
... covered * El valle del Dorado . Pineda relates , " que mas adelante de la provincia de la Canela se hallan tierras muy ricas , adonde andaban los hombres armados de pieças y joyas de oro , y que no havia sierra , ni montana . " [ Beyond ...
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... covered with rushes . This is the lake Amucu described by Nicolas Hortsmann , and respecting which some Portu- guese of Barcelos , who had visited the Rio Branco ( Rio Parima or Rio Paravigiana ) , gave me precise notions during my stay ...
... covered with rushes . This is the lake Amucu described by Nicolas Hortsmann , and respecting which some Portu- guese of Barcelos , who had visited the Rio Branco ( Rio Parima or Rio Paravigiana ) , gave me precise notions during my stay ...
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