The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 9
... carry light loads , and no mechanical means for transporting the vast blocks of stone used in constructing these buildings , we are astonished at what they accomplished . The pyramids of Egypt are not more wonderful . Great highways ...
... carry light loads , and no mechanical means for transporting the vast blocks of stone used in constructing these buildings , we are astonished at what they accomplished . The pyramids of Egypt are not more wonderful . Great highways ...
Page 10
... carry forward the message . In this way , it is said , about 150 miles a day were made . These couriers traveled more quickly than the mail - carriers of Europe , and the means of communication were then , Squier tells us , far better ...
... carry forward the message . In this way , it is said , about 150 miles a day were made . These couriers traveled more quickly than the mail - carriers of Europe , and the means of communication were then , Squier tells us , far better ...
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... carrying fire - arms ; and with this small force he overturned the Incas and enslaved the people . The descendants of the Quichuas , or the people of the Incas , still inhabit the land — a mild , apathetic , servile and dejected race ...
... carrying fire - arms ; and with this small force he overturned the Incas and enslaved the people . The descendants of the Quichuas , or the people of the Incas , still inhabit the land — a mild , apathetic , servile and dejected race ...
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... of a golden city far away on the banks of the Orinoco , surrounded by mountains of gold . Rumors of this golden city were carried by English navigators to Great Britain , with legends of a prince of Guiana , whose body.
... of a golden city far away on the banks of the Orinoco , surrounded by mountains of gold . Rumors of this golden city were carried by English navigators to Great Britain , with legends of a prince of Guiana , whose body.
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... carrying civilization from the Atlantic to the Pacific , expelling and exterminating the aborigines . There has been no mingling of the Anglo - Saxon and Indian races , no backward step , but ever civil , religious and intellectual prog ...
... carrying civilization from the Atlantic to the Pacific , expelling and exterminating the aborigines . There has been no mingling of the Anglo - Saxon and Indian races , no backward step , but ever civil , religious and intellectual prog ...
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