Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... east of the mouth of the Carony , made a courageous resistance to Sir Walter Raleigh , whom the Spanish writers of the conquest know only by the name of the pirate Reali . The third town , now the capital of the province , is fifty ...
... east of the mouth of the Carony , made a courageous resistance to Sir Walter Raleigh , whom the Spanish writers of the conquest know only by the name of the pirate Reali . The third town , now the capital of the province , is fifty ...
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... east of San Rafael , near the northern bank of the Orinoco . This is the point which vessels must pass in sailing up toward Angostura by the northern channel , that of San Rafael , which is the broadest but the most shallow . Six ...
... east of San Rafael , near the northern bank of the Orinoco . This is the point which vessels must pass in sailing up toward Angostura by the northern channel , that of San Rafael , which is the broadest but the most shallow . Six ...
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... eastern banks of the Carony and the Paragua as far as the banks of the Imataca , the Curumu , and the Cuyuni ; at the south - east they border on English Guiana , or the colony of Essequibo ; and toward the south , in going up the ...
... eastern banks of the Carony and the Paragua as far as the banks of the Imataca , the Curumu , and the Cuyuni ; at the south - east they border on English Guiana , or the colony of Essequibo ; and toward the south , in going up the ...
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... 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 surface . The savannahs to the east and south are ...
... 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 surface . The savannahs to the east and south are ...
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... east , amid the plains of Parima ( a land as unknown as Wangara and Dar - Saley , in Africa ) , a band of twenty ... east , without supposing that the bed of the Rio Branco , which flows from north to south , is crossed by the bed of the ...
... east , amid the plains of Parima ( a land as unknown as Wangara and Dar - Saley , in Africa ) , a band of twenty ... east , without supposing that the bed of the Rio Branco , which flows from north to south , is crossed by the bed of the ...
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