British Guiana: The Land of Six PeoplesH.M. Stationery Office, 1957 - Broj stranica: 235 |
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... less inaccurate maps of the region in the seventeenth century . The huge Lake Parima , which dominates the Interior of the country , was the legendary lake on which El Dorado was supposed to be situated . The engraving of Sir Walter ...
... less inaccurate maps of the region in the seventeenth century . The huge Lake Parima , which dominates the Interior of the country , was the legendary lake on which El Dorado was supposed to be situated . The engraving of Sir Walter ...
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... less uninhabited , though once Warrau Indians had lived along this ' Wild Coast ' in huts on stilts that had made Amerigo Vespucci name the territory Venezuela , or ' little Venice ' . It is a desolate coast , yet once it had filled ...
... less uninhabited , though once Warrau Indians had lived along this ' Wild Coast ' in huts on stilts that had made Amerigo Vespucci name the territory Venezuela , or ' little Venice ' . It is a desolate coast , yet once it had filled ...
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... less excuse than Columbus , who never saw the mainland , suggests that the country is comparable to Paradise . The passage has great beauty and it is interesting to see that Raleigh describes the land in terms more suitable to the ...
... less excuse than Columbus , who never saw the mainland , suggests that the country is comparable to Paradise . The passage has great beauty and it is interesting to see that Raleigh describes the land in terms more suitable to the ...
Stranica 5
... less majestic than the Essequibo , but sinuous and graceful as we circled above it before landing at Atkinson Field . Atkinson Field , twenty miles from George- town , was built by the Americans during the last war , on land leased by ...
... less majestic than the Essequibo , but sinuous and graceful as we circled above it before landing at Atkinson Field . Atkinson Field , twenty miles from George- town , was built by the Americans during the last war , on land leased by ...
Stranica 12
... Less obtrusive is the little house- wren or ' God - bird ' as the local people call it , which hops onto window - sills , trilling cheerfully and without fear . Sometimes the owner of a jacket which has been hanging unused for some ...
... Less obtrusive is the little house- wren or ' God - bird ' as the local people call it , which hops onto window - sills , trilling cheerfully and without fear . Sometimes the owner of a jacket which has been hanging unused for some ...
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