Voyage to South-America: Performed by Order of the American Government in the Years 1817 and 1818 in the Frigate Congress : in Two Volumes, Том 1The Author, 1819 - 351 страница |
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... Indian peasantry ; of the other half the greater part is made up of negroes and mulattoes . Scarcely a fifth are whites , and the number of monks and nuns is greater than in any other catholic country in the world , and may account for ...
... Indian peasantry ; of the other half the greater part is made up of negroes and mulattoes . Scarcely a fifth are whites , and the number of monks and nuns is greater than in any other catholic country in the world , and may account for ...
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... Indians . To make amends for the difficulties of internal intercourse by land , there is no part of the world which possesses such a number of fine navigable rivers as South America . An elegant writer has ob- served , " that of all the ...
... Indians . To make amends for the difficulties of internal intercourse by land , there is no part of the world which possesses such a number of fine navigable rivers as South America . An elegant writer has ob- served , " that of all the ...
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... Indians still constitute the great mass of population ; the lower class are an indolent , barmless peasantry , and in the comforts of civilized life , probably not below the boors of Russia , or even the peasantry of Poland or Hungary ...
... Indians still constitute the great mass of population ; the lower class are an indolent , barmless peasantry , and in the comforts of civilized life , probably not below the boors of Russia , or even the peasantry of Poland or Hungary ...
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... Indian . In the universities of Lima and Mexico , there are professorships of the native languages , into which se- veral ... Indians at first , made a distinc- tion between the American and European Spaniards , until the 30 INTRODUCTION .
... Indian . In the universities of Lima and Mexico , there are professorships of the native languages , into which se- veral ... Indians at first , made a distinc- tion between the American and European Spaniards , until the 30 INTRODUCTION .
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... Indians have taken a side at all , it has generally been in favor of the Ameri- cans . The unsubdued Indians on the borders of the settlements have shewn no particular inclination to either side , except in very few instances ; but they ...
... Indians have taken a side at all , it has generally been in favor of the Ameri- cans . The unsubdued Indians on the borders of the settlements have shewn no particular inclination to either side , except in very few instances ; but they ...
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