Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 第 2 卷Taylor & Maury, 1854 - 414 頁 |
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第 366 頁 - ... nearly as possible, of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement if the concession shall have been conditional.
第 281 頁 - ... 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 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 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 180 頁 - ... to its fellow of the North; nevertheless, I felt pleased at its sight. I had already travelled seven hundred miles by water, and fancied that this powerful stream would soon carry me to the ocean, but the water-travel was comparatively just begun; many a weary month was to elapse ere I should again look upon the familiar face of the sea; and many a time, when worn and wearied with the canoe life, did I exclaim, "This river seems interminablel" Its capacities for trade and commerce are inconceivably...
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 87 頁 - Without it, he is miserable and will not work. It is said to be a powerful stimulant to the nervous system, and, like strong coffee or tea, to take away sleep; but, unlike tobacco and other stimulants, no one has known it to be injurious to the health. Von Tschudi thinks that an immoderate use of it is injurious, but that, taken in moderation, it is in no way detrimental to health ; and that without it the Peruvian Indian, with his spare diet, would be incapable of going through the labor which he...
第 366 頁 - ... hereby agreed between them that any favor, privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of commerce and navigation, which either contracting party has actually granted, or may grant hereafter, to the subjects or citizens of any other state, shall be extended to the subjects of the other contracting party...
第 25 頁 - Amazon indicate the future importance, to this country, of the free navigation of that river. To enable the government to form a proper estimate as to the degree of that importance, present and prospective, is the object of your mission. You will, therefore, avail yourself of the best sources of information that can be had in answer to any or all of the following questions : .What is the present condition of the silver mines of Peru and Bolivia — their yield: how and by whom are they principally...