Journal of Voyages to Marguaritta, Trinidad, & Maturin: With the Author's Travels Across the Plains of the Llaneros, to Angustura, and Subsequent Descent of the Orinoco, in the Years 1819 & 1820Printed and sold for the author, by J. Jones, 1824 - 160 páginas |
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Página 22
... miles , and even that scarce , and of a miserably bad quality , being procured from a stagnant pool , and rolled in bar- rels the entire distance ; the badness of the roads , preventing the possibility of any other kind of conveyance ...
... miles , and even that scarce , and of a miserably bad quality , being procured from a stagnant pool , and rolled in bar- rels the entire distance ; the badness of the roads , preventing the possibility of any other kind of conveyance ...
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... miles . The walls of the house , of which we were now inmates , were about ten feet in height , the centre of the roof about twenty , and the inner walls were raised higher than those of the inside , lest the current of air might be ob ...
... miles . The walls of the house , of which we were now inmates , were about ten feet in height , the centre of the roof about twenty , and the inner walls were raised higher than those of the inside , lest the current of air might be ob ...
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... mile distant from Norte , and which extends in a south- east direction towards the mountains , from six to eight miles . ARISMENDI and his followers were well acquainted with the passages and wind- ings in the Jungle , and fully aware ...
... mile distant from Norte , and which extends in a south- east direction towards the mountains , from six to eight miles . ARISMENDI and his followers were well acquainted with the passages and wind- ings in the Jungle , and fully aware ...
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... miles , and was one of the most fertile spots I had yet seen , though rapidly hastening to a state of nature ; the usual consequence of intestine broils ; the inhabitants having all fallen sacrifices to the ferocity of one or other of ...
... miles , and was one of the most fertile spots I had yet seen , though rapidly hastening to a state of nature ; the usual consequence of intestine broils ; the inhabitants having all fallen sacrifices to the ferocity of one or other of ...
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... mile in breadth , its shores gradual- ly contracting as we ascended . The country on each side of the river is flat and thickly wooded ; the trees skirting the margins present a rich lux- uriant picture , alternately relieved by hills ...
... mile in breadth , its shores gradual- ly contracting as we ascended . The country on each side of the river is flat and thickly wooded ; the trees skirting the margins present a rich lux- uriant picture , alternately relieved by hills ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adieu Admiral BRION Angustura animal appearance ARISMENDI arms army arrival attempt banks boat BOLIVAR British British Legion calabash canoe Captain PHELAN carabine cassava bread cause Colonel LOPEZ Colonel MEADE comfortable command companion considerable countenance crew Cumana DEVEREUX distance dress Dublin enemy English entered European exer exertions eyes fate fatigue ferocious former forward gentleman Governor hammock hand hastened heard hopes horses independence Indian inhabitants Ireland Irish Legion island JAMIESON journey Juan Griego kind ladies land Llaneros Major DAVY MARINO Maturin ment merchants miles MORILLO morning Musquitoes native troops night o'clock officers Orinoco ourselves passage passed passport Patriot perceived plain plantation present privations proceeded quarters racter rain renegado returned river sailed scene schooner seated seemed situation soldiers soon South American Spaniards Spanish suffered Supreme Chief surprize termination tion trees Trinidad Venezuela vessel village waited woods wretched
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Página 65 - In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers . . in perils by the heathen . . in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea . . in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 86 - ... blanket, with a hole cut in the centre, through which the head...
Página 137 - MEADE ; and that he looked with hope for the arrival of the rest of the Irish Legion.
Página 22 - As we proceeded we saw several flocks of a small species of Parrot...
Página 22 - Tropg«£/, a bird much sought for, about the size of our common thrush; it has a bright yellow top, with 'breast of the same...