Recollections of Four Years in VenezuelaH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 303 páginas |
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... donkeys - two cuentas on each side . They are then taken to an embarcadero , or shipping - house , and sent down to the caña in alijos or lighters . The village of Caña Colorado contained about forty houses , all thatched and mostly ...
... donkeys - two cuentas on each side . They are then taken to an embarcadero , or shipping - house , and sent down to the caña in alijos or lighters . The village of Caña Colorado contained about forty houses , all thatched and mostly ...
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... donkeys . It is not the custom here to poison * rum with colouring and other mixtures , that it might have the name of old Grenada and old Jamaica . There is only one man in Maturin , a French Creole , who possesses the knowledge of rum ...
... donkeys . It is not the custom here to poison * rum with colouring and other mixtures , that it might have the name of old Grenada and old Jamaica . There is only one man in Maturin , a French Creole , who possesses the knowledge of rum ...
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... donkeys ' back a few minutes before . It must not be thought , however , that drunken- ness is a crying sin of this people . Indeed , it is difficult to say what is their besetting sin , except it be a disposition to bloodshedding at ...
... donkeys ' back a few minutes before . It must not be thought , however , that drunken- ness is a crying sin of this people . Indeed , it is difficult to say what is their besetting sin , except it be a disposition to bloodshedding at ...
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... of these young ladies was affianced to a Frenchman . The little girl whom I had seen at her father's hacienda came running in , and seeing me offered Donkey Riding . 77 her hand to shake . She 76 Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela .
... of these young ladies was affianced to a Frenchman . The little girl whom I had seen at her father's hacienda came running in , and seeing me offered Donkey Riding . 77 her hand to shake . She 76 Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela .
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... donkey , having to lift their feet on to his back , which , they said , made them very liable to an upset . One sister told me that their donkey had a very mischievous trick of squatting in the river , without any consideration whatever ...
... donkey , having to lift their feet on to his back , which , they said , made them very liable to an upset . One sister told me that their donkey had a very mischievous trick of squatting in the river , without any consideration whatever ...
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