Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... summit of the palm - trees illumined by large fires . These are the habitations of the Guaraons ( Tivitivas and Waraweties of Raleight ) , which are suspended from the trunks of trees . These tribes hang up mats in the air , which they ...
... summit of the palm - trees illumined by large fires . These are the habitations of the Guaraons ( Tivitivas and Waraweties of Raleight ) , which are suspended from the trunks of trees . These tribes hang up mats in the air , which they ...
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... summits of the curve of progressive increase and decrease correspond very regularly with each other , since they exhibit the difference of six months , which results from the situation of the rivers in opposite hemispheres . The ...
... summits of the curve of progressive increase and decrease correspond very regularly with each other , since they exhibit the difference of six months , which results from the situation of the rivers in opposite hemispheres . The ...
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... summit of the delta is in the northern branch of the bifurcated river , this part of the Orinoco is highly important for the military defence of the country . All the channels that terminate in the bocas chicas , rise from the same ...
... summit of the delta is in the northern branch of the bifurcated river , this part of the Orinoco is highly important for the military defence of the country . All the channels that terminate in the bocas chicas , rise from the same ...
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... summits of which attain the height of one thousand three hundred toises , was almost entirely unknown before our visit to the Orinoco . This group , however , is a hundred leagues long , and eighty broad ; and though wherever M ...
... summits of which attain the height of one thousand three hundred toises , was almost entirely unknown before our visit to the Orinoco . This group , however , is a hundred leagues long , and eighty broad ; and though wherever M ...
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... summits of the Andes bear names which belong neither to the Quichua ( the language of the Inca ) nor to the ancient language of the Paruays , governed by the Conchocando of Lican . + Vespucci says : " Charaibi magnæ sapientiæ viri ...
... summits of the Andes bear names which belong neither to the Quichua ( the language of the Inca ) nor to the ancient language of the Paruays , governed by the Conchocando of Lican . + Vespucci says : " Charaibi magnæ sapientiæ viri ...
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