Narrative of an Official Visit to Guatemala from MexicoJ. Murray, 1829 - 528 Seiten |
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... four minutes : the whole effect is doubtlessly produced by what is called counteraction . Early in the evening I arrived at a sugar water - mill , one of the largest haciendas in Mexico . It was built about half a cen . tury ago , by ...
... four minutes : the whole effect is doubtlessly produced by what is called counteraction . Early in the evening I arrived at a sugar water - mill , one of the largest haciendas in Mexico . It was built about half a cen . tury ago , by ...
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... four pretty children , had returned home with a kid which he had just shot . I immediately purchased the animal for a dollar , which was three times as much as he would probably have parted with it for , and dined off of one of the ...
... four pretty children , had returned home with a kid which he had just shot . I immediately purchased the animal for a dollar , which was three times as much as he would probably have parted with it for , and dined off of one of the ...
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... four miles on , there stood , in the centre of our path , a magnificent specimen of vegetation , of which I could not learn the similar to the English oak , and as large as almost any specimen of it to be met with . “ We must take our ...
... four miles on , there stood , in the centre of our path , a magnificent specimen of vegetation , of which I could not learn the similar to the English oak , and as large as almost any specimen of it to be met with . “ We must take our ...
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... four persons were halting here , who had come up from the coast , and were proceeding on to Mexico . On the other side of the road , opposite to the venta , was a small sugar - mill , worked by two mules : I understood it was constantly ...
... four persons were halting here , who had come up from the coast , and were proceeding on to Mexico . On the other side of the road , opposite to the venta , was a small sugar - mill , worked by two mules : I understood it was constantly ...
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... four others , all marriageable , were likely to follow the example , for they were very comely , and had each got a lover . There were two swinging cots in the front apartment , one formed of open mat - work , the other of string - net ...
... four others , all marriageable , were likely to follow the example , for they were very comely , and had each got a lover . There were two swinging cots in the front apartment , one formed of open mat - work , the other of string - net ...
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Seite 127 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger, as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Seite 250 - Guatemala," gives the following account of the plant. " The nopal is a plant consisting of little stems, but expanding itself into wide thick leaves, more or less prickly according to its different kind : one or two of these leaves being set as one plant, at the distance of two or three feet square from each other, are inoculated with the cochineal, which, I...
Seite 144 - The Roman Catholic religion, the only true one, is, and always shall be, that of the Spanish nation. The government protects it by wise and just laws, and prohibits the exercise of any other whatever.
Seite 168 - ... great, that, on finding a hoard of meat, he will chuckle the hens together, and without touching one bit himfelf will rehnquifh the whole of it to them.
Seite 250 - The nopal is a plant consisting of little stems, but expanding itself into wide thick leaves, more or less prickly according to its different kind : one or two of these leaves being set as one plant, at the distance of two or three feet square from each other, are inoculated with the cochineal, which, I scarcely need say, is an insect : it is the same as if you would take the blight off an apple or other common tree, and rub a small portion of it on another tree free from the contagion, when the...
Seite 467 - Santiago de Guatemala, the capital, stands in the midst of a large handsome plain, surrounded on all sides by sierras of a moderate height, and at the distance of from three to seven league*.
Seite 199 - Permission to cut wood in the said province. 4th. Exemption from duty on the introduction of goods, on account of the company, until the canal be completed.
Seite 250 - ... square from each other, are inoculated with the cochineal, which, I scarcely need say, is an insect : it is the same as if you would take the blight off an apple or other common tree, and rub a small portion of it on another tree free from the contagion, when the consequence would be that the tree so inoculated would become covered with the blight : a small quantity of the insects in question is sufficient for each plant, which, in proportion as it increases its leaves, is sure to be covered...
Seite 251 - ... tree so inoculated would become covered with the blight : a small quantity of the insects in question is sufficient for each plant, which, in proportion as it increases its leaves, is sure to be covered with the costly parasite. When the plant is perfectly saturated, the cochineal is scraped off with great care. The plants are not very valuable for the first year, but they may be estimated as yielding after the second year, from a dollar to a dollar and a half profit on each plant.
Seite 468 - They slope from each side towards the centre, along which runs almost perpetually a streamlet of clear water, the edges of which being covered with verdure, give to the city a picturesque, though deserted appearance. In some few of the streets there are trottoirs, particularly in the Plaza, or chief square, where they are covered with a colonnade, extending all round the square, excepting on the side occupied by the cathedral ; opposite to this is the palace...