Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon: Made Under Direction of the Navy Department, 第 1 卷Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853 |
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... seemed to fly ; but just as I was clearing the outer line of merchantmen , the ship came sweeping up to the wind ; and as she gracefully fell off on the other tack , her royals and courses were set ; and , bending to the steady ...
... seemed to fly ; but just as I was clearing the outer line of merchantmen , the ship came sweeping up to the wind ; and as she gracefully fell off on the other tack , her royals and courses were set ; and , bending to the steady ...
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... seemed as if just created . Gillis told me that his small telescope , of American manufacture , of 6 inches of aperture , was there fully equal in power to the German glass at Washington of 9 inches . Chili , in arts and civilization ...
... seemed as if just created . Gillis told me that his small telescope , of American manufacture , of 6 inches of aperture , was there fully equal in power to the German glass at Washington of 9 inches . Chili , in arts and civilization ...
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... seemed abandoned to the vulgar . The ladies have given up their peculiar and most graceful national costume , the " Saya y Manto , " and it is now the mark of a ragged reputation . They dress in the French style , frequent the opera ...
... seemed abandoned to the vulgar . The ladies have given up their peculiar and most graceful national costume , the " Saya y Manto , " and it is now the mark of a ragged reputation . They dress in the French style , frequent the opera ...
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... , ( descendant of Indian and negro , ) and seemed an amiable and intelligent fellow . * A very green and pretty kind of lucern , universally used in this country for pasturage . He gave us a supper of a thin soup ( PACAYAR . 45.
... , ( descendant of Indian and negro , ) and seemed an amiable and intelligent fellow . * A very green and pretty kind of lucern , universally used in this country for pasturage . He gave us a supper of a thin soup ( PACAYAR . 45.
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... seemed , in some places , to overhang the stream fifty feet below it . Just as we were turning an angle of the road we met a man driving two horses before him , which immediately mingled in with our burden mules , and endangered their ...
... seemed , in some places , to overhang the stream fifty feet below it . Just as we were turning an angle of the road we met a man driving two horses before him , which immediately mingled in with our burden mules , and endangered their ...
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Amazon arrived arrobas ascend Barra beach boat Brazil Brazilian called Calm canoe carried Castelnau Cerro Pasco Chanchamayo Chasuta cirro-cumulus clouds cirrus clouds clear Conibos Cordillera cotton cultivation cumulus clouds Cuzco distance Egas eight Father feet five forest four Gibbon give governor hacienda half cents half-past heavy hills hour Huallaga Huallaga River Huanuco hundred and fifty Ijurra Indians inhabitants island labor lake land Light air Light breeze Lima miles Moderate breeze Montaña mountains mouth Moyobamba mules Mundrucus musquitoes Nauta navigation nearly Negro night Noon padre Pará passed Peru Peruvian port pounds province Purus rain right bank river road rock Santarem Sarayacu sarsaparilla savages seemed Shapaja shore squall of wind stratus clouds stream Tabatinga Tapajos Tarapoto Tarma thousand dollars Ticunas Tingo Maria told town traveller trees tributaries twenty twenty-five Ucayali valley village woods yards
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第 371 頁 - The castled Crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine ; And hills all rich with blossomed trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scattered cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strewed a scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me.
第 349 頁 - ... the storm by which they are overtaken. They are driven back by the Indians into the middle of the water; but a small number succeed in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti.
第 281 頁 - ... a navigable canal between two basins of rivers, which have a surface of one hundred and ninety thousand square leagues. The grain of New Grenada will be carried to the banks of the Rio Negro ; boats will descend from the sources of the Napo and the...
第 366 頁 - ... grant any favor, privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of commerce and navigation, to other nations, which shall not be also immediately extended to the citizens of the other contracting party, who shall enjoy the same, gratuitously, if the concession shall have been gratuitous, or on giving a compensation as nearly as possible of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement, if the concession shall have been conditional.
第 366 頁 - ... shall have been gratuitous, or in return for a compensation, as nearly as possible, of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement if the concession shall have been conditional.
第 348 頁 - To catch the gymnoti with nets is very difficult, on account of the extreme agility of the fish, which bury themselves in the mud like serpents.
第 239 頁 - Knight Pensioner of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles the Third, Member of the Supreme Assembly of the said Royal Order; of the Council of His Catholic Majesty; his Secretary, with Exercise of Decrees, and His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near the United States of America.
第 366 頁 - The two high-contracting parties hereby bind and engage themselves not to grant any favor, privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of commerce and navigation, to other nations, which shall not be also immediately extended to the citizens of the other contracting party, who shall enjoy the same gratuitously, or on giving a compensation as nearly as possible of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement, if the concession shall have been conditional...
第 348 頁 - We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary manner of fishing; but we soon saw our guides return, from the Savannah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat.
第 62 頁 - Morococha, and as it floated along I followed it, in imagination, down through the luxurious climes, the beautiful skies, and enchanting scenery of the tropics, to the mouth of the great river; thence across the Caribbean sea, through the Yucatan pass, into the Gulf of Mexico; thence...