The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 7
... cipally on game and wild cattle . Humboldt tells us that the navigator on the Orinoco sees with surprise at night the palm trees illuminated by large fires . From the trunks of these trees are suspended the habitations of.
... cipally on game and wild cattle . Humboldt tells us that the navigator on the Orinoco sees with surprise at night the palm trees illuminated by large fires . From the trunks of these trees are suspended the habitations of.
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... night was 180 feet in length , with rooms forming three sides of a court . The country of the Incas had every variety of climate , and the products were those of every part of the new world . On the coast , perpetual summer reigns ...
... night was 180 feet in length , with rooms forming three sides of a court . The country of the Incas had every variety of climate , and the products were those of every part of the new world . On the coast , perpetual summer reigns ...
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... night until 1888 , when a law was passed finally emancipating 1,300,000 slaves . It was opposed by the planters , who said freedmen would not work , but would let the coffee and sugar plantations fall to ruin . It was probably this act ...
... night until 1888 , when a law was passed finally emancipating 1,300,000 slaves . It was opposed by the planters , who said freedmen would not work , but would let the coffee and sugar plantations fall to ruin . It was probably this act ...
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... night , another craft came around the distant headland , but less swiftly than the former one ; and soon our picturesque canoe , with Christie at the stern steering with a paddle in true Indian fashion , grated on the shingle beach ...
... night , another craft came around the distant headland , but less swiftly than the former one ; and soon our picturesque canoe , with Christie at the stern steering with a paddle in true Indian fashion , grated on the shingle beach ...
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... night was far spent . Some- times in the twilight hours , long after the sun disappeared , the summits of the majestic peaks toward the east were transformed by the light of the after - glow into mountains of flame . As the light faded ...
... night was far spent . Some- times in the twilight hours , long after the sun disappeared , the summits of the majestic peaks toward the east were transformed by the light of the after - glow into mountains of flame . As the light faded ...
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