Travels in Peru and Mexico, Volume 2Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 - Chile |
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... give my friend the opportunity of showing me the peculiar character of the Indian women , Puno being almost the only place where it is possible for Europeans to communicate with them . I had always observed them to be serious and ...
... give my friend the opportunity of showing me the peculiar character of the Indian women , Puno being almost the only place where it is possible for Europeans to communicate with them . I had always observed them to be serious and ...
Page 14
... give to the mining operations . The mountain districts in this vicinity have been pronounced by competent geologists to be composed of porphyric rocks resting on sandstone . I have mentioned in an earlier chapter , such of the animals ...
... give to the mining operations . The mountain districts in this vicinity have been pronounced by competent geologists to be composed of porphyric rocks resting on sandstone . I have mentioned in an earlier chapter , such of the animals ...
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... give the most clear and consistent account , that it is about the size of the fox , that it only prowls by night , and that as it is generally supposed to be venomous no one is induced to take much pains to capture it . Moreover PUNO . 15.
... give the most clear and consistent account , that it is about the size of the fox , that it only prowls by night , and that as it is generally supposed to be venomous no one is induced to take much pains to capture it . Moreover PUNO . 15.
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... give a just account of the agreeable evening that I spent at the hacienda of Señor José Rios de Garces , which was chiefly passed in conver- sation with the ladies . The Señor was a member of the congress of Peru , and had been for ...
... give a just account of the agreeable evening that I spent at the hacienda of Señor José Rios de Garces , which was chiefly passed in conver- sation with the ladies . The Señor was a member of the congress of Peru , and had been for ...
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... give them from our own stock , but which , they ate with abundance of appetite . We were very early upon our mules the next morn- ing ; and the day's journey was rendered more agree- able , by the pleasant company of the merchant and ...
... give them from our own stock , but which , they ate with abundance of appetite . We were very early upon our mules the next morn- ing ; and the day's journey was rendered more agree- able , by the pleasant company of the merchant and ...
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