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Ramón Páez. Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series
Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
VENEZUELA
TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES
CHAPTER I. THE DEPARTURE
CHAPTER II. THE MORROS
CHAPTER III. THE LLANOS
CHAPTER IV. THE LLANEROS
JOSE URBANO, THE GUERILLA-CHIEF
CHAPTER V. SCENES AT THE FISHERY
CHAPTER VI. WILD HORSES
CHAPTER VII. ACROSS THE PAMPAS
CHAPTER VIII. LA PORTUGUESA
CHAPTER IX. THE APURE RIVER
CHAPTER X. SAVANNAS OF APURE
CHAPTER XI. EL FRIO
CHAPTER XII. BIRDS OF ILL OMEN AND CARRION HAWKS
CHAPTER XIII. THE RODEO
CHAPTER XIV. BRANDING SCENES
CHAPTER XV. PLANTS AND SNAKES
ANTIDOTES
CHAPTER XVI. TIGER STORIES
THE PANTHER-TIGER
CHAPTER XVII. SHOOTING ADVENTURES
CHAPTER XVIII. MATA TOTUMO
MANTECAL
CHAPTER XIX. MONKEY NOTIONS
CHAPTER XX. AMONG THE CROCODILES
CHAPTER XXI. THE CIMARRONERA
CHAPTER XXII. LOS BORALES
CHAPTER XXIII. OUR LEADER. THE ROMANCE OF A PATRIOT’S LIFE
CHAPTER XXIV. SCENES AT THE PASS OF APURITO
CHAPTER XXV. THE WONDERS OF THE RIVER
CHAPTER XXVI. THE LAND OF EL DORADO
CHAPTER XXVII. THE OIL-WELLS OF THE ORINOCO
CHAPTER XXVIII. HOMEWARD BOUND
CHAPTER XXIX. CALABOZO
CONCLUSION
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Ramón Páez
Life in the Llanos of Venezuela
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A cacao plantation is one of the handsomest orchards that can be seen, shaded as they are by another tree of large proportions, the erythrina, a leguminous plant with crimson flowers, which you may have noticed in greenhouses at home, though much reduced in size, as it never attains there more than a few feet above the boxes on which they are raised as an ornament to the garden in summer. The rapidity with which these trees grow in the tropics is astonishing, for in eight or ten years, the time required to reach its maximum growth, they attain the size of the largest denizens of the forest. Observe how their tops glow with the fiery hue of their blossoms, for this is the season when they exchange their leaves for flowers, the only instance of a plant shedding its leaves in these latitudes, with the exception of the ceiba or silk cotton tree, which the author of Amyas Leigh has so admirably described as growing close to where we are journeying just now.
Here the cordillera rises considerably above the connecting mountains, attaining a height of thirteen thousand feet in the peak of Naiguata, which you may perceive peeping through the clouds yonder, and the next one eleven thousand in the Cerro de Avila, both forming what is called the Silla, or Saddle of Caracas, at the foot of which stands La Guaira, the principal port of the republic, but the vilest anchorage in the world. Here ends our yacht excursion; trusting in future to the nimble-footed mule or to the thumping stage coaches for the rest of the journey.
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