Recollections of Four Years in VenezuelaH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 303 pagini |
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... tasajo , and fresh beef from the carcase of a gored ox . Fresh beef is a rarity here . When an ox is gored or too exhausted for shipment , it is sold for the value of the skin , that is , for two or three pesos of eighty cents each ...
... tasajo , and fresh beef from the carcase of a gored ox . Fresh beef is a rarity here . When an ox is gored or too exhausted for shipment , it is sold for the value of the skin , that is , for two or three pesos of eighty cents each ...
Pagina 41
... tasajo , of 25 lbs . each , and a little demijean of white rum ( ron blanco ) . We slept two nights in the village , and , starting early on the following morning , dropped down to La Ceiba , as being convenient for the tide , and ...
... tasajo , of 25 lbs . each , and a little demijean of white rum ( ron blanco ) . We slept two nights in the village , and , starting early on the following morning , dropped down to La Ceiba , as being convenient for the tide , and ...
Pagina 44
... . Arrived at the rancheria , we slung our ham- mocks , cooked our tasajo , and , with dry cassavae bread and hunger , made a comfortable meal . A French Traveller . 45 Some good logs of firewood 44 Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela .
... . Arrived at the rancheria , we slung our ham- mocks , cooked our tasajo , and , with dry cassavae bread and hunger , made a comfortable meal . A French Traveller . 45 Some good logs of firewood 44 Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela .
Pagina 51
... tasajo and cassava with the addition of a fish , caught by one of our men , which we enjoyed . By this time the master of the place , who had gone into the bush before our arrival , returned . M. Edmond then had some private business ...
... tasajo and cassava with the addition of a fish , caught by one of our men , which we enjoyed . By this time the master of the place , who had gone into the bush before our arrival , returned . M. Edmond then had some private business ...
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... tasajo for the voyage . I was much chagrined at my loss , and could not understand the sang froid of my companions at the serious loss we had sustained , till I gathered from them that they had been already paid to take up the corial of ...
... tasajo for the voyage . I was much chagrined at my loss , and could not understand the sang froid of my companions at the serious loss we had sustained , till I gathered from them that they had been already paid to take up the corial of ...
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