Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... important for the military defence of the country . All the channels that terminate in the bocas chicas , rise from the same point of the trunk of the Orinoco . The branch ( Caño Manamo ) that separates from it near the village of San ...
... important for the military defence of the country . All the channels that terminate in the bocas chicas , rise from the same point of the trunk of the Orinoco . The branch ( Caño Manamo ) that separates from it near the village of San ...
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... importance , and have from time to time resisted the civil authority , and that of their bishop . The governors who reside at Angostura have struggled against them with very unequal success , according as the ministry of Madrid showed a ...
... importance , and have from time to time resisted the civil authority , and that of their bishop . The governors who reside at Angostura have struggled against them with very unequal success , according as the ministry of Madrid showed a ...
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... important , not only because it throws light on the events of the Conquest , and that long series of disastrous expeditions made in search of El Dorado , the last of which was in the year 1775 ; it also furnishes , in addition to this ...
... important , not only because it throws light on the events of the Conquest , and that long series of disastrous expeditions made in search of El Dorado , the last of which was in the year 1775 ; it also furnishes , in addition to this ...
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... important to fix the attention of geographers on this point . Colum- bus called the south - east cape of the island Punta Galera , on account of the form of a rock . From Punta de la Galera he sailed to the west , and landed at a low ...
... important to fix the attention of geographers on this point . Colum- bus called the south - east cape of the island Punta Galera , on account of the form of a rock . From Punta de la Galera he sailed to the west , and landed at a low ...
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... important materials for the history of geography . The Orinoco , above the confluence of the Apure , was at that period as little known to Europeans , as in our time the course of the Niger below Sego . The names of several very remote ...
... important materials for the history of geography . The Orinoco , above the confluence of the Apure , was at that period as little known to Europeans , as in our time the course of the Niger below Sego . The names of several very remote ...
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