Recollections of Four Years in VenezuelaH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 303 стор. |
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... appearance in cheap uncouth shirt and short trousers , barefooted and barelegged ; and for a hat , a coarse kerchief . The revenue also suffers , and in a way most disastrous to the country . The officers of customs add to their ...
... appearance in cheap uncouth shirt and short trousers , barefooted and barelegged ; and for a hat , a coarse kerchief . The revenue also suffers , and in a way most disastrous to the country . The officers of customs add to their ...
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... appearance , aided no doubt by a little prejudice , I readily admitted it to be the king of birds . I saw two feet of an eagle , somewhat later , in a settlement up the Guarapiche . They were every bit as large as my hands , and the ...
... appearance , aided no doubt by a little prejudice , I readily admitted it to be the king of birds . I saw two feet of an eagle , somewhat later , in a settlement up the Guarapiche . They were every bit as large as my hands , and the ...
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... a man of about forty years of age , tall and erect . feet seemed so delicate , and were so well formed , that one could hardly reconcile their appearance His with the known habits of the man , whose ambi- CHAPTER V BUEN PASTOR,
... a man of about forty years of age , tall and erect . feet seemed so delicate , and were so well formed , that one could hardly reconcile their appearance His with the known habits of the man , whose ambi- CHAPTER V BUEN PASTOR,
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... appearance of a neglected cultivation . We sat down and ate our breakfast , after which the revenue guard stretched himself out and began to sing one of the improvised songs peculiar to his people . Some one from the hill , hearing his ...
... appearance of a neglected cultivation . We sat down and ate our breakfast , after which the revenue guard stretched himself out and began to sing one of the improvised songs peculiar to his people . Some one from the hill , hearing his ...
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... appearance on the surface of the leaves and the narcotine intensified . The tobacco manufactured was good enough for our use ; but even Christobal , who was loth to dispraise it , said it ought to have turned out better . At last we had ...
... appearance on the surface of the leaves and the narcotine intensified . The tobacco manufactured was good enough for our use ; but even Christobal , who was loth to dispraise it , said it ought to have turned out better . At last we had ...
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