Recollections of Four Years in VenezuelaH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 303 páginas |
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... lands , the fertility of its soil , and the great advantage offered to settlers of small means and moderate energy ; but also that the undying grati- tude of the Venezuelans towards those brave English spirits who assisted them to throw ...
... lands , the fertility of its soil , and the great advantage offered to settlers of small means and moderate energy ; but also that the undying grati- tude of the Venezuelans towards those brave English spirits who assisted them to throw ...
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... Source , a gentleman connected with the press , had just obtained from the Venezuelan Government a considerable tract of land in the Don Gerilleau . 7 district of the Apure to establish 6 Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela .
... Source , a gentleman connected with the press , had just obtained from the Venezuelan Government a considerable tract of land in the Don Gerilleau . 7 district of the Apure to establish 6 Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela .
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... land , and assist me to get peons ( labourers ) to clear what of it would be required at first . We closed at this , and I arranged my affairs in Trinidad and prepared for the voyage . It was in Gerilleau's own sloop that we took ...
... land , and assist me to get peons ( labourers ) to clear what of it would be required at first . We closed at this , and I arranged my affairs in Trinidad and prepared for the voyage . It was in Gerilleau's own sloop that we took ...
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... land . The pro- prietor deals largely in oxen , which are periodi- cally driven down over the savannahs by a road made for the purpose . The two shipping places are the Embarcadero , a mile higher up the river , and La Ceiba , where ...
... land . The pro- prietor deals largely in oxen , which are periodi- cally driven down over the savannahs by a road made for the purpose . The two shipping places are the Embarcadero , a mile higher up the river , and La Ceiba , where ...
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... land , making his 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 ...
... land , making his 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 ...
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