Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Port of Trinidad . - The King and Queen's Gardens CHAPTER XXX . Passage from Trinidad de Cuba to Rio Sinu . - Carthagena . - Air Volcanos of Turbaco . - Canal of Mahates CHAPTER XXXI . CUBA AND THE SLAVE TRADE · CHAPTER XXXII ...
... Port of Trinidad . - The King and Queen's Gardens CHAPTER XXX . Passage from Trinidad de Cuba to Rio Sinu . - Carthagena . - Air Volcanos of Turbaco . - Canal of Mahates CHAPTER XXXI . CUBA AND THE SLAVE TRADE · CHAPTER XXXII ...
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... port of Angostura has been treated with still less favour than the ports of Cumana and Nueva Barcelona . With respect to the inland trade , the most active is that of the province of Varinas , which sends mules , cacao , indigo , cotton ...
... port of Angostura has been treated with still less favour than the ports of Cumana and Nueva Barcelona . With respect to the inland trade , the most active is that of the province of Varinas , which sends mules , cacao , indigo , cotton ...
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... port of Varinas Nuevas . The little town of San Fernando de Apure , of which I have already given a description , is the magazine of this river - trade , which might become more considerable by the introduction of steamboats . I have ...
... port of Varinas Nuevas . The little town of San Fernando de Apure , of which I have already given a description , is the magazine of this river - trade , which might become more considerable by the introduction of steamboats . I have ...
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... port of Nueva Barcelona . As we advanced , the sky became more serene , the soil more dusty , and the atmosphere more hot . The heat from which we suffered is not entirely owing to the temperature of the air , but is produced by the ...
... port of Nueva Barcelona . As we advanced , the sky became more serene , the soil more dusty , and the atmosphere more hot . The heat from which we suffered is not entirely owing to the temperature of the air , but is produced by the ...
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... ports to the caravans ; but we are ignorant whether the form of the oases have not remained constantly the same since the time of Herodotus . Our annals are too incomplete to enable us to follow Na- ture in her slow and gradual progress ...
... ports to the caravans ; but we are ignorant whether the form of the oases have not remained constantly the same since the time of Herodotus . Our annals are too incomplete to enable us to follow Na- ture in her slow and gradual progress ...
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