Frontières du Brésil et de la Guyane Anglaise ... 1903: Annexes du Second mémoire du Brésil ...1903 |
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Affaires Étrangères Annay ARAUJO RIBEIRO Aureliano de Souza autorités brésiliennes banks bornes-frontières Brésil Capitaine Leal Colonie Commandant Corentyn Crichton Cuyuni Envoyé Extraordinaire Essequibo expédition Extraordinaire et Ministre Frère José Fryer Georgetown Gouvernement Brésilien Gouvernement Impérial Gouverneur de Demerara Gouverneur Light Grande-Bretagne Guyane Anglaise Guyane Britannique HAMILTON HAMILTON Indiens informé instructions J'ai l'honneur Joaquim jusqu'à l'Amazone l'Angleterre l'embouchure l'Essequibo l'expédition l'Orénoque latitude ligne de démarcation limites Lord Aberdeen macusi Majesté Britannique Majesté l'Empereur Marques Lisboa Mémorandum ment Ministre des Affaires Ministre et Secrétaire Ministre Plénipotentiaire mission missionnaire Monsieur Mont Roraima mountains Note novembre Oliveira Coutinho ordres Ouseley Pacaraima Pirára Pirarara possession présent Président du Pará protestation Province du Pará question Rio Branco Rio de Janeiro Rio Negro river rivière Takutu rivières Mahú Robert H Rupunoony Rupununi São Joaquim savanes savannahs Schomburgk Secrétaire d'État serait sources soussigné Souza e Oliveira sujet Takutu territoire tion village de Pirara William Crichton Youd
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Seite 140 - times give us examples, broke its barrier, forcing for its waters a path to the Atlantic. May we not connect with the former existence of this inland sea the fable of the lake Parima and the El Dorado ? Thousands of years may have elapsed ; generations may have been
Seite 140 - extinct, and exist even no more in name : still the tradition of the lake Parima and the El Dorado survived these changes of time; transmitted from father to son, its fame was carried across the Atlantic, and kindled the romantic fire of the chivalric Raleigh.
Seite 140 - of this region leaves but little doubt that it was once the bed of an inland lake, which by one of those catastrophes, of which even later times give us examples, broke its barrier, forcing for its waters a path to the Atlantic. May we not
Seite 140 - possessed by European powers. If we follow the limits which nature prescribes by its rivers and mountains, and include all the regions which are drained by the streams which fall into the Essequibo within the British territory, and adopting the river Corentyn as its eastern boundary, the counties Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice, which constitute British Guiana, consist of
Seite 24 - from its resemblance to a hand, attracted our attention. It stood on the top of a mountain on our right side, was deeply furrowed, and had for its base a rock of larger size. The Indians, as is generally the case with phenomena of nature, make it the seat of a demon, and pass it under fear and trembling.
Seite 51 - de Janeiro afin qu'il exerce son influence en faveur de cette mission. Notre droit sur les lieux étant contesté, vu que nos limites semblent n'être pas bien définies, on ne devrait pas laisser à un particulier le soin de suggérer qu'il convient de déterminer ces limites, mais cette suggestion devrait émaner de qui de droit.
Seite 20 - and veined ; young branches and leaves hirsute ; hairs brown ; cirrhiferous, however, not peculiar to every branch ; fruit of the size of a large apple, round, smooth, bluish-green ; seeds embedded in a pulp, and consist chiefly of a gummy matter, which is intensely bitter. We observed many heaps of the cut wood covered with palm
Seite 16 - them in that respect. A Warpeshana returned from a few days' journey, and it was a pleasure to see his children flock around him, hang about his neck, and putting a thousand questions to him ; very likely about his success, what he had brought them, &c. He took some
Seite 15 - we observed that it consisted of a dome-shaped hut, and two smaller open ones. A number of Warpeshanas had assembled from the neighbouring places, as we found hereafter, to have a Piwarrie feast ; they were fine formed people, and taller than any Indians I had before seen. In their dress they are not distinguished from other tribes ; but
Seite 145 - A short portage of about seven to eight hundred yards separates the basin of the Amazon from that of the Essequibo. During the rainy season, the river Amazon and the upper Orinoco may be reached from Demerara entirely by inland navigation. So extensive is the water communication of these fertile provinces, that with a little trouble the inland navigation might be extended to Santa