Following the Conquistadores ...: Along the Andes and down the Amazon ... 1911. F3423.Z2D. Appleton, 1911 |
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... road between Porto Bello and Panama and during the halcyon days of Span- ish rule , the value of the traffic that passed over it was immense . Some times , however , a portion of the mer- chandise was shipped a part of the way by the ...
... road between Porto Bello and Panama and during the halcyon days of Span- ish rule , the value of the traffic that passed over it was immense . Some times , however , a portion of the mer- chandise was shipped a part of the way by the ...
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... roads a quarter of a century ago . But high as they were , they were much lower than the prices demanded two decades ago . Then a ticket from Colon to Panama , a distance of forty - seven miles , cost twenty - five dollars in gold and ...
... roads a quarter of a century ago . But high as they were , they were much lower than the prices demanded two decades ago . Then a ticket from Colon to Panama , a distance of forty - seven miles , cost twenty - five dollars in gold and ...
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... road for a greater part of the dis- tance to Panama the vegetation is as profuse and as dense as can be seen anywhere in the tropics . Palms , bamboos , cedars , mahoganies , cottonwoods , ferns and heliconias , all matted together by ...
... road for a greater part of the dis- tance to Panama the vegetation is as profuse and as dense as can be seen anywhere in the tropics . Palms , bamboos , cedars , mahoganies , cottonwoods , ferns and heliconias , all matted together by ...
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John Augustine Zahm. the road would be covered with a compact mass of vege- tation in less than six months unless measures were adopted to keep it cleared . Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa , writing of the scenery along this route ...
John Augustine Zahm. the road would be covered with a compact mass of vege- tation in less than six months unless measures were adopted to keep it cleared . Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa , writing of the scenery along this route ...
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... road from Colon to Panama . A short distance from Matachin , on the left bank of the Chagres , on the Gold Road and a short distance from the present railway , is the hamlet of Cruces - formerly Venta Cruz - famous in the annals of ...
... road from Colon to Panama . A short distance from Matachin , on the left bank of the Chagres , on the Gold Road and a short distance from the present railway , is the hamlet of Cruces - formerly Venta Cruz - famous in the annals of ...
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able Amazon Andean Arequipa arrival Atahualpa Aymara beautiful Bolivia Cajamarca called canal capital Casa centuries Chachapoyas Chimu chroniclers Cieza civilization clouds coast coca color conquest conquistadores continent Cordilleras Cuzco declares delightful distance Ecuador explorers famous feet forest Garcilaso gold Guayaquil Huallaga Huayna Capac Humboldt hundred immense Inca empire Incas Indians inhabitants interesting island Isthmus journey kind Lake Titicaca land leaving Lima llamas Madrid Manco Capac Marañon marvelous miles missionaries montaña mountain Moyobamba mules nearly never night ocean Orellana Orinoco Pacific Padre Panama Pará Peru Peruvian Pizarro plateau Quichua Quito race railroad regarding region republic Riobamba river road ruins seemed South America Spaniards Spanish species splendid steamer summit Tambo thousand Tiahuanaco tion to-day town traveler treasure trees tribes tropics Trujillo valley volcano voyage wonderful writes Yurimaguas
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Seite 357 - MAWE'S (HL) Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, crossing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru, and descending the great River Maranon.
Seite 97 - ... Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Seite 40 - The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
Seite 110 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Seite 307 - She has now him in hers, since, being unaware that the letter is not in his possession, he will proceed with his exactions as if it was. Thus will he inevitably commit himself, at once, to his political destruction. His downfall, too, will not be more precipitate than awkward. It is all very well to talk about the facilis descensus Averni; but in all kinds of climbing, as Catalani said of singing, it is far more easy to get up than to come down.
Seite 523 - We deem the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest member of the family of nations entitled to as much respect as those of the greatest empire, and we deem the observance of that respect the chief guaranty of the weak against the oppression of the strong.
Seite 444 - This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach: we fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour: how is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!
Seite 33 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Seite 523 - In many parts of South America there has been much misunderstanding of the attitude and purposes of the United States toward the other American Republics. An idea had become prevalent that our assertion of the Monroe Doctrine implied, or carried with it, an assumption of superiority, and of a right to exercise some kind of protectorate over the countries to whose territory that doctrine applies. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Seite 390 - ... necessity, and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife?