Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, Volum 2Sir Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn, John Joseph Quelch, James Rodway J. Thomson, 1883 Reports and proceedings of the society are included in each volume. |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of ... Visualització completa - 1898 |
Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of ... Visualització completa - 1894 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
abundant alumina Amakooroo Amazon appearance Arawak banks Barima bark Berbice Berbice River British Guiana Calcutta called Campbell canes Canje Carib cassava cent coast colonists colony colour considerable course creek crushing cultivation Cuyooni decoction Demerara Demerara River district Dominica Dutch English Essequibo estates EVERARD F Exhibition feed feet fibre forest gallons gold Governor ground Hevea hills hour inches Indians island itaboo Jenman juice labour Lamaha water land less lime main river Manoa matter meeting megass ment miles mill mora Morawhanna Morooka mouth Museum Orinoco palm paper passed plant plantation planters Pomeroon Pomeroon River possession present probably quantity reached ROBERT SCHOMBURGK rocks rollers rubber Russell savannah SCHOMBURGK Secretary seems seen sent settlement settlers side slaves Society Spaniards sugar surface Surinam Timehri tion tract trash turner trees tributary Tupuquen Upata Waini Warrau West wood
Passatges populars
Pàgina 34 - The empire of Guiana is directly east from Peru towards the sea, and lieth under the equinoctial line; and it hath more abundance of gold than any part of Peru, and as many or more great cities than ever Peru had when it flourished most. It is governed by the same laws, and...
Pàgina 368 - Quinctilium deos, quod si Threicio blandius Orpheo auditam moderere arboribus fidem, non vanae redeat sanguis imagini, 15 quam virga semel horrida, non lenis precibus fata recludere, nigro compulerit Mercurius gregi. durum : sed levius fit patientia, quidquid corrigere est nefas.
Pàgina 35 - Dorado, that for the greatness, for the riches, and for the excellent seat, it far exceedeth any of the world, at least of so much of the world as is known to the Spanish nation. It is founded upon a lake of salt water of 200 leagues long, like unto Mare Caspium.
Pàgina 34 - He had in his wardrobe hollow statues of gold which seemed giants, and the figures in proportion and bigness of all the beasts, birds, trees, and herbs that the earth bringeth forth, and of all the fishes that the sea or waters of his kingdom breedeth. He had also ropes, budgets, chests, and troughs of gold and silver, heaps of billets of gold, that seemed wood marked out to burn. Finally, there was nothing in his country whereof he had not the counterfeit in gold.
Pàgina 36 - When they are anointed all over, certain servants of the emperor, having prepared gold made into fine powder, blow it thorough hollow canes upon their naked bodies, until they be all shining from the foot to the head...
Pàgina 36 - Dudley told me he had seen. Upon this sight, and for the abundance of gold which he saw in the city, the images of gold in their temples, the plates, armours, and shields of gold which they use in the wars, he called it El Dorado.
Pàgina 34 - Incas had a garden of pleasure in an Island near Puna, where they went to recreate themselves, when they would take the air of the sea, which had all kind of garden herbs, flowers and trees of Gold and Silver, an invention, and magnificence till then never seen.
Pàgina 36 - ... and governors the manner is thus : "All those that pledge him are first stripped naked, and their bodies anointed all over with a kind of white balsam...
Pàgina 12 - ... with the best care in moving about, and stepping mostly on the more solid soil which is usually found in hillocks around the butts of trees, or on the fallen bits of wood which stretch between them, in spite of my care, I was constantly sinking to their tops and over, so that my socks were covered with mud. I am speaking, as I have said, of the wet season of the year, but even in the dry the ground continues in a very moist condition. The land is usually very densely shaded, and in many places,...
Pàgina 35 - Peru toward the sea, and lieth under the equinoctial line, and it hath more abundance of gold than any part of Peru, and as many or more great cities than ever Peru had when it flourished most. It is governed by the same laws, and the emperor and people observe the same religion, and the same form and policies in government, as was used in Peru, not differing in any part; and, as I have been assured...