Recollections of four years in VenezuelaРипол Классик, 1876 - 303 стор. |
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... man who had lately arrived from the gold~diggings. His account was that some were pretty successful; several had died from overfatigue and starvation ; but that the provision dealers were rapidly becoming rich. For himself, he must say ...
... man who had lately arrived from the gold~diggings. His account was that some were pretty successful; several had died from overfatigue and starvation ; but that the provision dealers were rapidly becoming rich. For himself, he must say ...
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... man of experience and forethought, also spoke favourably of a colony of farmers. About this time I got acquainted with a Don Carlos Gerilleau, Spanish interpreter to the courts in Trinidad, and whose brother was Chief of Finance in ...
... man of experience and forethought, also spoke favourably of a colony of farmers. About this time I got acquainted with a Don Carlos Gerilleau, Spanish interpreter to the courts in Trinidad, and whose brother was Chief of Finance in ...
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... man of powerful build, as merry hearted as a child; and yet a man of strong passions and determination, and not at all guided by any principles of morality. He was a creature of impulses. The passage ought to have been very agreeable ...
... man of powerful build, as merry hearted as a child; and yet a man of strong passions and determination, and not at all guided by any principles of morality. He was a creature of impulses. The passage ought to have been very agreeable ...
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... my attention directed to a large culebra, or snake, moving about the thatched roof. The manager of La Ceiba is a black man of extraordinary height and good proportion. His wife is a Creole beauty, a brunette, with slightly tinted.
... my attention directed to a large culebra, or snake, moving about the thatched roof. The manager of La Ceiba is a black man of extraordinary height and good proportion. His wife is a Creole beauty, a brunette, with slightly tinted.
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... man, especially as they might take all to-morrow to settle their grievances, which I dared say needed only a little mutual explanations and concessions. The next morning Hills got into the only corial on the place, that in which we had ...
... man, especially as they might take all to-morrow to settle their grievances, which I dared say needed only a little mutual explanations and concessions. The next morning Hills got into the only corial on the place, that in which we had ...
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A WAKE | 70 |
CHAPTER X | 92 |
CHAPTER XI | 101 |
CHAPTER XII | 107 |
ENTRY or SOTILLOS ARMY | 160 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 171 |
CHAPTER XIX | 178 |
CHAPTER XX | 187 |
CHAPTER XXI | 193 |
CHAPTER XXII | 204 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 221 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 232 |
CHAPTER XIII | 117 |
CHAPTER XIV | 127 |
CHAPTER XV | 139 |
CHAPTER XVI | 148 |
CHAPTER XXV | 245 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 257 |
ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DAY ON THE LLANOS | 264 |
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