Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... furnished by any other plant useful to man . One trunk of a tree in its fifteenth year sometimes yields six hundred pounds weight of sago , or meal ( for the word sago signifies meal in the dialect of Amboyna ) . Mr. Crawford , who ...
... furnished by any other plant useful to man . One trunk of a tree in its fifteenth year sometimes yields six hundred pounds weight of sago , or meal ( for the word sago signifies meal in the dialect of Amboyna ) . Mr. Crawford , who ...
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... furnish them with food , wine , * and thread proper for making cords and weaving hammocks . These customs of the ... furnished the philosophers of antiquity with a problem difficult to solve . The Orinoco and the Nile , contrary to the ...
... furnish them with food , wine , * and thread proper for making cords and weaving hammocks . These customs of the ... furnished the philosophers of antiquity with a problem difficult to solve . The Orinoco and the Nile , contrary to the ...
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... furnished with * Nearly forty or fifty days after the summer solstice . Nearly eighty or ninety days after the summer solstice . The figure of water itself is often substituted for that of the Rat ( Arvicola ) in the Tartar zodiac . The ...
... furnished with * Nearly forty or fifty days after the summer solstice . Nearly eighty or ninety days after the summer solstice . The figure of water itself is often substituted for that of the Rat ( Arvicola ) in the Tartar zodiac . The ...
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... furnish a combination of circumstances still more extraordinary . They are united by the Rio Negro and the Cassiquiare , a branch of the Orinoco ; it is a navigable * Coxcox bears also the denomination of Teo - Cipactli , in which the ...
... furnish a combination of circumstances still more extraordinary . They are united by the Rio Negro and the Cassiquiare , a branch of the Orinoco ; it is a navigable * Coxcox bears also the denomination of Teo - Cipactli , in which the ...
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... furnished to an illicit trade ; but since Berbice , Demerara , and Essequibo , have fallen into the hands of a more powerful neighbour , it fixes the atten- tion of the Spanish Americans as being connected with the security of their ...
... furnished to an illicit trade ; but since Berbice , Demerara , and Essequibo , have fallen into the hands of a more powerful neighbour , it fixes the atten- tion of the Spanish Americans as being connected with the security of their ...
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