Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... present capital from the mouth of the Orinoco . Exact knowledge of the delta , and the course of the Rio Carony , is at once interest- ing to hydrography and to European commerce . When a vessel coming from sea would enter the prin ...
... present capital from the mouth of the Orinoco . Exact knowledge of the delta , and the course of the Rio Carony , is at once interest- ing to hydrography and to European commerce . When a vessel coming from sea would enter the prin ...
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... present state is , with the exception of a few Spanish parishes , scat- tered on the banks of the Lower Orinoco , and subject to two monastic governments . Estimating the number of the inhabitants of Guiana , who do not live in savage ...
... present state is , with the exception of a few Spanish parishes , scat- tered on the banks of the Lower Orinoco , and subject to two monastic governments . Estimating the number of the inhabitants of Guiana , who do not live in savage ...
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... present population is composed are the three Indian races of the Guayanos , the Caribs , and the Guaycas . The last are a people of mountaineers , and are far from being so diminutive in size as the Guaycas whom we found at Esmeralda ...
... present population is composed are the three Indian races of the Guayanos , the Caribs , and the Guaycas . The last are a people of mountaineers , and are far from being so diminutive in size as the Guaycas whom we found at Esmeralda ...
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... presents the fewest whirlpools and shoals . The great fall , celebrated for the picturesque beauty of its situation , is a little above the village of Aguacaqua , or Carony , which in my time had a population of seven hundred Indians ...
... presents the fewest whirlpools and shoals . The great fall , celebrated for the picturesque beauty of its situation , is a little above the village of Aguacaqua , or Carony , which in my time had a population of seven hundred Indians ...
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... this plant to M. Bonpland . The tree , known at present by the name of Bonplandia trifoliata , grows at the distance of five or six leagues from the eastern bank of the Carony , at 24 THE ANGOSTURA BARK . the foot of the hills.
... this plant to M. Bonpland . The tree , known at present by the name of Bonplandia trifoliata , grows at the distance of five or six leagues from the eastern bank of the Carony , at 24 THE ANGOSTURA BARK . the foot of the hills.
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