Recollections of Four Years in VenezuelaH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 303 páginas |
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... young men , most of whom had scarcely ever travelled beyond the streets of a town , and whose previous occupa- tions unfitted them for the exposure , fatigues , and self - denial required for a successful issue to the project . I joined ...
... young men , most of whom had scarcely ever travelled beyond the streets of a town , and whose previous occupa- tions unfitted them for the exposure , fatigues , and self - denial required for a successful issue to the project . I joined ...
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... should be my undeserved portion . I went with the young men , on the morning of their departure , on board the sloop that took Gold - Diggings . 3 them over the Parian gulf 2 Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela .
... should be my undeserved portion . I went with the young men , on the morning of their departure , on board the sloop that took Gold - Diggings . 3 them over the Parian gulf 2 Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela .
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... prices demanded at the diggings , and on the route , for all the necessaries of life . Six months of uncertainty as to the well - doing or existence of the young men passed away , when one night I heard a knocking , and the sound.
... prices demanded at the diggings , and on the route , for all the necessaries of life . Six months of uncertainty as to the well - doing or existence of the young men passed away , when one night I heard a knocking , and the sound.
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... young Eng- lishmen , were supporting a companion who had left England with them for the purpose of seek- ing gold ; the fourth , who was a creole of Trini- dad , and had left six months ago the picture of health and strength , was ...
... young Eng- lishmen , were supporting a companion who had left England with them for the purpose of seek- ing gold ; the fourth , who was a creole of Trini- dad , and had left six months ago the picture of health and strength , was ...
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... , I bought for two dollars . The two surviving young Englishmen said that their failure and illness arose from getting to the diggings too late in the dry season . But if they had lost a good deal , they had , at least.
... , I bought for two dollars . The two surviving young Englishmen said that their failure and illness arose from getting to the diggings too late in the dry season . But if they had lost a good deal , they had , at least.
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