Reminiscences of South America: From Two and a Half Years' Residence in VenezuelaJackson and Walford, 1838 - 260 pagina's |
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Reminiscences of South America: From Two and a Half Years' Residence in ... John Hawkshaw Volledige weergave - 1838 |
Reminiscences of South America: From Two and a Half Years' Residence in ... John Hawkshaw Volledige weergave - 1838 |
Reminiscences of South America: From Two and a Half Years' Residence in ... John Hawkshaw Volledige weergave - 1838 |
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1st Week acquired afterwards American animals appearance Aragua arrived Barbadoes become beneath boats breeze captain Caraccas Caribbean Sea Carlisle Bay carried chiefly climate coast colour considerable copper cultivation dark descending distance ditto dry weather Duaca earth earthquake England English feet fever forest formed frequently ground Guayra Gulf Gulf of Mexico hammock heat horse Humboldt inhabitants journey kind La Guayra labourers land leaves living look maize mangrove Maracay miles mines mountains mule natives nearly negro never night occasion occasionally Paez passed peons perhaps persons plain Point Tucacas Puerto Cabello pulperia races rain residence river road sail scenes seemed seen shark shocks shore side Silla slavery slaves sloth soil sometimes soon South America Spaniards species thing tion Tocuyo town trade wind trees TROPICAL Valencia valley of Aroa Venezuela Venezueleans village walk wild wind Yaracuy Yumare
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Pagina 233 - But seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you ? Dare you believe this promise or not ? I DARE : and will act accordingly, by God's assistance.
Pagina 171 - ... lattice-work and plastering : or it is boarded with narrow plank, formed by splitting the rind of the cabbage palm. If it be a place intended only for temporary purposes, then the walls, as well as the roof, are merely thatched with palm leaves, or a species of rush. One or two low rough seats, or stools, a coarse earthen jar or two, a number of tortumas (calabashes) in the shape of basins and bottles, made from a kind of gourd which grows in the forest, nearly complete the furniture of these...
Pagina 171 - Birmingham musket, reared in one corner. ' For cooking purposes, a fire is made upon the ground, under a small shed, erected at a little distance. And it is under this shed that the females of the family spend a considerable part of the day, squatted on the ground, apparently doing nothing, or perhaps pounding the root of the cassava in a wooden mortar, with a wooden pestle, to extract from it, by frequent washing, its poisonous qualities, before making it into bread. ' In large towns the cottages...
Pagina 170 - ... afterwards rammed in. Still smaller poles are lashed across the top of these for rafters. Wild cane, or the bamboo, split into shreds, is then tied transversely across the rafters, and the whole is thatched with the leaves of the fan palm. The sides of the building are then closed in by tying similar shreds of bamboo, or wild cane, across from pole to pole, so as to form a sort of basket-work ; afterwards it is either plastered over on the outside with a mixture of earth, clay, and grass, or,...
Pagina 123 - r out of doors, in the mines or in the stores, it was equally dreaded. Possessing an extraordinary appetite for wood, it eats fallen trees by the hundred. Once established in a woodenbridge, and a mine of gunpowder could not destroy it more effectually. Once having made its way to the timbering of the mines, nothing could be more certain in bringing the roof about their heads. In the warehouses of the merchant, this ant, if it once obtains an entrance, is very destructive. Should it happen to get...
Pagina 38 - Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed." The credit or blame belongs to men if this law instituted by God is not carried out; just as other commandments of God, too, are broken. Afterward it was also confirmed by the law of Moses, Exodus 21 [:14], "If a man wilfully kills another, you shall take him from "Luther's citation here of Rom.
Pagina 121 - I pacitied the animal, until the furious little creatures were dislodged from his skin. Though they are celebrated as strategists, yet these little insects, when disturbed, fall immediately to work wherever they may alight, pell-mell, fighting and biting, without any regard to arrangement or order, and without any of the slackness of fear ; each individual using its jaws, as though it considered itself capable alone and single-handed of both killing and eating a horse. ' A numerous colony of this...
Pagina 121 - ... it never deviates from its course,) every thing must be off; the rats and the serpents forsake the roof; and the horses, unless they are let loose, break their fastenings and decamp. I happened at one time to ride under a low tree, which was covered with these creatures ; and, as I was riding...
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Pagina 209 - ... Indian. It is from seeing the effects that have been produced by a few years of freedom, in a country where he feels himself to be placed on an equal footing with those around him, that I think thus highly of the negro's capacity. Of course the effects that have been produced by ages of neglect, are not to be remedied by one age of culture. Just as the muscles of the arm become enlarged by the use of the arm, so does the size of the brain become enlarged by the use of the brain ; and just as...