| 单词 | Cumana |
| 例句 | Toyota said its lone factory in Cumana, Venezuela, continues to operate normally. GM faces hard road getting compensated for Venezuela factory 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Over 100 shops in the coastal town of Cumana were hit and at least one person died according to local media. Venezuela police arrest 400 for looting in food shortage - BBC News 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Looters swarmed shops in the coastal town of Cumana on Tuesday to seize food and other supplies, with security forces nearly powerless to stop them, Reuters reported. Hundreds Arrested in Venezuela Food Riots 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The Sibylla Cumana, also aged, and with her head covered, is reading with her volume at a distance from her eyes. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z On their way to this place, his vanguard had also been in luck, having met with a Spanish vessel bringing military stores and money from Cumana for the garrisons of Hispaniola. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z The plain of Cumana," says Humboldt, "presents a remarkable phenomenon, after heavy rains. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z After a voyage of nineteen days, the ship entered the harbor of Cumana, on the north coast of South America. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z From Cumana Bolivar repaired to Cartagena, and thence to Tunja, where the revolutionary congress of New Granada was sitting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Cumana, 1797.—In the same year, on the 14th of December, the small Antilles experienced subterranean movements, and four-fifths of the town of Cumana was shaken down by a vertical shock. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Meanwhile Marino, another Patriot leader, had landed in the eastern part of Venezuela near Cumana and declared himself dictator. The United States and Latin America On the 11th November in that year a splendid display was witnessed at Cumana, in South America, by the celebrated travellers, Humboldt and Bonpland. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language La Guaira coffee includes that produced in the vicinity of Caracas and Cumana. All About Coffee Humboldt states that in the clear air of Cumana, in South America, the stars do not twinkle after they reach an elevation of 15� above the horizon. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' But the greatest steppes, the Llanos of Cumana, of Caraccas, and of Meta, all belong to the equinoctial zone, and are very little elevated above the level of the ocean. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. While Raleigh was anchored off Port of Spain, he found that Berreo, the Governor, had privately sent for reinforcements to Marguerita and Cumana, meaning to attack him suddenly. Raleigh From Cumana he makes a short excursion to Havana, and hearing there of the probable arrival of Baudin on the west coast of America, starts with the intention of crossing at Panama. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The coast of Caracas and the adjacent island of Trinidad were violently convulsed in 1776, and the whole city of Cumana was reduced to ruins. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror In July, Humboldt and Bonpland arrived at Cumana, in that part of America known as Terra Firma. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century From that city they made their first expedition in Spanish America, during which they travelled over Spanish Guiana, New Andalusia, and the Missions of the Caribbees, from whence they returned to Cumana in 1800. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. On May 21 he appeared before the important town of Cumana, but was persuaded to spare it from sack upon payment of a large sum by the inhabitants. Raleigh On the right bank were seen the plains of the Sayma, reaching to Cumana and Caraccas, 120 leagues to the north. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography The first of the known earthquakes in the western hemisphere occurred in 1530, and the Gulf of Paria, with the adjacent coast of Cumana, in Venezuela, was the scene of the catastrophe. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Columbus landed on the shore, west of Point Cumana, and received a kindly welcome from the numerous inhabitants. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World The two friends embarked at Corunna on board a Spanish vessel, and after a prosperous voyage, reached Cumana, in the New World, in July 1799. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. She pointed to the blue mountains of Cumana seen across the gulf. The Three Lieutenants I thought matters over a little, and at length hit upon a plan which I thought might serve to render our visit to Cumana unnecessary, at least so far as the spars were concerned. The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba The craft is called the ‘Juanita,’ and the mate says they were bound from Cumana to Cartagena, but his papers look to me remarkably like forgeries. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War On this day the Continent of America, although unknown to him, was really discovered by Christopher Columbus, in that part of Venezuela which goes by the name of the Province of Cumana. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World He had steered directly for the Pearl Coast, and at or near Cumana and Margarita, had amassed a fortune from the sea. Amerigo Vespucci What in one part of the world was termed Cumana, was in another rendered Comana. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. In December 1600 the governor of Cumana had suggested to the King, as a means of keeping Dutch and English ships from the salt mines of Araya, the ingenious scheme of poisoning the salt. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century During the great shower of stars seen by Humboldt, in Cumana, the direction was to the south uniformly. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence Filled with this idea, he stood to the west, along the coast of those provinces which are now known by the name of Paria and Cumana. Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia A great quantity is made at Cumana, and Humboldt frequently witnessed the arrival there of canoes containing 3,000 nuts. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The term Cumana is not formed merely by a Latine inflection; but consists of the terms Cumain, and signifies a hot fountain; or a fountain of Chum, or Cham, the Sun. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. In the tropics this diminution is so much greater, that from the Havana to Cumana the variation is less than 0.4 degrees for every degree of latitude. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Midway in this course Cumana and Manacapana are passed; and it is at these places, not at Curiana, where the most pearls are found. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera "His flag was flying on every fort from Cumana to Laguayra." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Cumana, who brought the book to Tarquin, 8. Holidays in Eastern France This gentleman proved to be the captain of a three-masted schooner, which traded between Cumana and the Islands, bringing over cargoes of mules. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale After midnight, on the 12th of November, 1799, occurred the extraordinary fall of stars at Cumana, which Bonpland and myself have described, and which was observed over a great part of the earth. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 This young man of Cumana wore it hanging round his neck, and he sold it to Andreas Morales for five green glass beads because their colour pleased him. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera Tobacco: origin of the word. cultivation of, in Cumana and Mexico. plantations of, in Valencia. in Guiania. in Cumanacoa. in the island of Cuba. statistics of. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The exportation of cattle took place from the ports of the northern coast only, namely from Cumana, Barcelona, Burburata, and Porto Cabello. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The young moon lay on her back in the far west, thin and pale, over Cumana and the Cordillera, with Venus, ragged and red with earth mist, just beneath. At Last The cacao of Cumana is infinitely superior to that of Guayaquil. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The plain of Cumana," saya Humboldt, "presents a remarkable phenomenon, after heavy rains. The Earth as Modified by Human Action Cordillera: of the Andes. of Baraguaro. near Cumana. native inhabitants of the. climate of. volcanic nature of the. of the coast. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 I was impatient, from the time of my arrival at Cumana, to procure electrical eels. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Young Guacharos have been sent to the port or Cumana, and lived there several days without taking any nourishment, the seeds offered to them not suiting their taste. At Last In the town of Cumana there is prepared a great quantity of cocoa-nut oil, which is limpid, without smell, and very fit for burning. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 From thence he went to Cumana and there slew the governor, and dealt in all as at Margarita. The Discovery of Guiana Geology: queries in. problem of. basis of the study of. of America. of Aragua. of the Canary Islands. of Cumana. applied to mining and agriculture. of Mariara. of Peak of Teneriffe. of volcanoes. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 There are some of these in the Caribbean Sea, on the coast of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 There the red dots stop: but then begins along the north coast of South America a line of mountain country called Cumana, and Caraccas, which has often been horribly shaken by earthquakes. Madam How and Lady Why It now remains for me to speak of the other Indian nations inhabiting the provinces of Cumana and Barcelona. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 When I came to Cumana in the West Indies afterwards by chance I spake with a Spaniard dwelling not far from thence, a man of great travel. The Discovery of Guiana Meteors: connection of, with the undulations of the earth. falling. fiery, seen at Cumana. luminous. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 From the mouths of the Dragon the Llanos of Cumana, of Barcelona, and of Caracas or Venezuela,* follow, running from east to west. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 I never perceived the temperature in the night at Cumana below 21 degrees. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Some families of Guaraons, associated with the Chaymas, live far from their native land, in the Missions of the plains or llanos of Cumana; for instance, at Santa Rosa de Ocopi. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 It was from that province that the coasts of Cumana received the first seeds of the Indigofera anil,* which is cultivated jointly with the Indigofera tinctoria. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Sabbath of. of the Canary Islands. of Cumana. of Venezuela. of Victoria. fugitive, capture of. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 It is very difficult to form an exact idea of the herds contained in the Llanos of Caracas, Barcelona, Cumana, and Spanish Guiana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 We rested three days in this retreat, where we were treated with great kindness by the proprietor, Don Mathias Yturburi, a native of Biscay, who had accompanied us from the port of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 From the embarcadero to Cumana the distance is only twelve nautical leagues. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 It was, on the 20th of September, 1799, 3 degrees 15 minutes 30 seconds north-east; consequently 0 degrees 58 minutes 15 seconds less than at Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Slave: market, at Cumana. trade. commercial establishments to facilitate the. causes which led to the abolition of. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The torpedo of Cumana was very lively, very energetic in its muscular movements, and yet the electric shocks it gave us were extremely feeble. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 This breccia, or calcareous sandstone, is a local and partial formation, peculiar to the peninsula of Araya, the coasts of Cumana, and Caracas. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The canoes which carry provisions to Cumana sometimes ground on this bank; but always without danger, because the sea is never rough or heavy. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 They cited the flames which had been seen to issue from the earth at Cumana; and the shocks felt in places where heretofore the ground had never been shaken. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 These secondary formations, which rise to considerable heights in the Cordillera of Venezuela and Cumana, belong only to the low regions of Brazil. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 When we arrived at the level of the sea, the road turned eastward, and crossed a barren shore a league and a half broad, resembling that of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 It is a subalpine plant, which forms at the Silla de Caracas a zone much higher than in the province of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 We afterwards learned, without passing the limits of the province of Cumana, the great contrast existing between the physiognomy of the Guayquerias and that of the Chaymas and the Caribs. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Comparative experiments led us to believe that in general the nights at Cumanacoa are from two to three, and the days from four to five centesimal degrees cooler than at the port of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Cacao: port of. export of. adulteration of. harvest of. of Cumana. trees, propagation of. plants having the same properties. of Barcelona. wild. plantations. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 "There exist trees," says Laet,* "in the province of Cumana, the sap of which much resembles curdled milk, and affords a salubrious nourishment." Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The words province and govierno, or government of Cumana, are consequently not synonymous. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The Indians of the two canoes we had met had left the port of Cumana during the night. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The port of Cumana is only seven nautical leagues from Cumanacoa. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The earthquakes and subterraneous detonations of which the seat has been erroneously sought in the calcareous mountains of Cumana have been felt with most violence in the granitic soils of Caracas and the Orinoco. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 These islands are all composed of a calcareous breccia of extremely recent formation, and analagous to that on the coast of Cumana, and near the castle of Araya. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The town of Cumana, properly so called, occupies the ground lying between the castle of San Antonio and the small rivers of Manzanares and Santa Catalina. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Our gardens, they reply, are beyond the gulf; when we carry our fish to Cumana, we bring back plantains, cocoa-nuts, and cassava. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 We have ourselves felt very violent shocks at Cumana; and we learned on the spot, the most minute circumstances that accompanied the great catastrophe of the 14th December, 1797. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The secondary rocks of the Llanos of Cumana, Barcelona and Caracas occupy a space of more than 5000 square leagues. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 It is very difficult to convey them from the Missions of the Orinoco to the coast of Caracas, or of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The site on which Cumana is built is part of a tract of ground, very remarkable in a geological point of view. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 At Cumana I have never seen it sink below 21 degrees; but then the house in which we dwelt on the Imposible was 258 toises above the level of the sea. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The shore near the mouth of the small river Santa Catalina is bordered with mangrove trees,* but these mangroves are not sufficiently spread to diminish the salubrity of the air of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 It is highly important to know the southern limit of the littoral Cordillera of Venezuela because it determines the parallel at which the Llanos or the savannahs of Caracas, Barcelona and Cumana begin. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 It is a false notion, very general in the province of Cumana, that the excellent liqueur fabricated at Martinique owes its peculiar flavour to the jape. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 They considered the between-decks of the ship as infected; and though it was by no means clear to me that the fever was contagious, I thought it most prudent to land at Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The latter not only vegetates in the missions of the Rio Carony, but also to the west of Cumana, in the gulf of Santa Fe. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The city of Cumana and its castle appeared between groups of cocoa-trees. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 This result differed much from that we had obtained at Cumana, where the rain-water was often a degree colder than the air.* Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Its long, horizontal ridge reminded us of the Mesa of the Brigantine, near Cumana; but it terminates by a truncated summit. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The city of Cumana, the capital of New Andalusia, is a mile distant from the embarcadero, or the battery of the Boca, where we landed, after having passed the bar of the Manzanares. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 This temperature is sufficient for the development of the productions of the torrid zone; though, compared with the excessive heat of the plains of Cumana, we might call it the temperature of spring. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The Avicennia of Cumana is distinguished by another peculiarity not less remarkable: it furnishes an instance of a plant common to the shores of South America and the coasts of Malabar. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Numbers of pelicans and of flamingos, which fished in the nooks or harassed the pelicans in order to seize their prey, indicated our approach to the coast of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The sarsaparilla of these countries is celebrated at Grand Para, Angostura, Cumana, Nueva Barcelona, and in other parts of Terra Firma, by the name of zarza del Rio Negro. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 This part of the town had just been rebuilt, for the earthquake had laid Cumana in ruins eighteen months before our arrival. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The waters are receding, and these changes of the shore are very remarkable, more particularly on the coast of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 We enjoyed an agreeable coolness when the breeze arose; the windows were without glass, and even without those paper panes which are often substituted for glass at Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 At nine in the morning we reached the gulf of Cariaco which serves as a roadstead to the town of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Similar swellings were observed at the time of the total destruction of Cumana, in 1766. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The Guayquerias belong to that tribe of civilized Indians who inhabit the coasts of Margareta and the suburbs of the city of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 This Intendencia is one-third smaller than the two provinces of Cumana and Barcelona; yet it contains more than four hundred thousand natives of pure copper-coloured race. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The city of Cumana is backed by this group, which was formerly an island of the gulf of Cariaco. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 A beach shows that the sea is here receding from the land, as on the opposite coast of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The earth is sometimes strongly shaken at the village of Maniquarez, when on the coast of Cumana the inhabitants enjoy the most perfect tranquillity. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The eruption of the 27th of September, during which very long-continued subterranean noises were heard, was followed on the 14th of December by the great earthquake of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 We found this passage difficult, because at that time we had not climbed the Cordilleras; but it is by no means so dangerous as the people at Cumana love to represent it. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 In the small pools of salt water it kept at 30.5 degrees, while the heat of the ocean, at its surface, is generally, in the port of Cumana, from 25.2 to 26.3 degrees. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The king of Morequito, whose son Raleigh took to England, had visited Cumana in 1594, to exchange a great quantity of images of massy gold for iron tools, and European merchandise. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The population of Cumana has been singularly exaggerated, but according to the most authentic registers it does not exceed 16,000 souls. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Storms are formed in the centre of this Cordillera; and we see from afar thick clouds resolve into abundant rains, while during seven or eight months not a drop of water falls at Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 A rich planter of cacao-trees was to accompany us from Santa Rosalia to the port of Carupano; but when the time of departure approached, we were informed that his affairs had called him to Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 If the situation of our house at Cumana was highly favourable for the observation of the stars and meteorological phenomena, it obliged us to be sometimes the witnesses of painful scenes during the day. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 M. Bonpland discovered the same tree west of Cumana, in the gulf of Santa Fe, where it may become one of the articles of exportation from New Andalusia. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 This seemed the first signal of those violent commotions which shook the coasts of Cumana and Cariaco for more than ten months. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The limestone mountains of Cumana present the same phenomenon north of Tumiriquiri. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 They speak of Indians of Cumana and of the coast of Paria, as if the proximity of abode proved the identity of origin. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The southern passage is, in fact, highly advantageous for vessels going to Cumana and Barcelona. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Our host could scarcely comprehend how natives of the north of Europe could arrive at his dwelling from the frontiers of Brazil by the Rio Negro, and not by way of the coast of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Earthquakes were very frequent about the end of the sixteenth century; and, according to the traditions preserved at Cumana, the sea often inundated the shores, rising from fifteen to twenty fathoms. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The city of Cumana was entirely destroyed, the houses were overturned in the space of a few minutes, and the shocks were hourly repeated during fourteen months. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 THE first weeks of our abode at Cumana were employed in testing our instruments, in herborizing in the neighbouring plains, and in examining the traces of the earthquake of the 14th of December, 1797. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The great earthquakes, which interrupt the long series of slight shocks, appear to have no regular periods at Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The incursions of Don Joseph Careno, one of the most enterprising governors of the province of Cumana, occasioned a general migration of independent Caribs toward the banks of the Lower Orinoco in 1720. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The cuspa, a very common tree in the environs of Cumana and of Bordones, is yet unknown to the botanists of Europe. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Next to the tobacco of the island of Cuba and of the Rio Negro, that of Cumana is the most aromatic. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 We gathered the ripened seeds of several beautiful species of glycine from New Holland, which the governor of Cumana, Mr. Emparan, had successfully cultivated, and which grow wild on the coasts of South America. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 It is believed at Cumana, that the pearl-oyster has greatly multiplied after two centuries of repose; and in 1812, some new attempts were made at Margareta for the fishing of pearls. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The climate of Barcelona is not so hot as that of Cumana but it is extremely damp and somewhat unhealthy in the rainy season. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The Llaneros, or inhabitants of the plains, send their produce, especially maize, leather, and cattle, to the port of Cumana by the road over the Imposible. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 At Cumana, it has already been observed that flames and vapours mixed with sulphurous acid spring up from the most arid soil. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 We were assured, that these last were as little productive here as on the coast of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The earthquakes of Cumana are connected with those of the West India Islands; and it has even been suspected that they have some connection with the volcanic phenomena of the Cordilleras of the Andes. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 It was sold in my time at Cumana to the dyers and tanners, at the price of two reals* per pound, while alum from Spain cost twelve reals. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Our passage from Santa Cruz to Cumana, the most eastern part of the New Continent, was very fine. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 It is known, that in the passage from Santa Cruz to Cumana, as in that from Acapulco to the Philippine Islands, seamen are scarcely ever under the necessity of working their sails. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 It is true, that strong shocks occur less frequently in a given time at Cumana than at Quito, where we nevertheless find sumptuous and very lofty churches. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Tea could be cultivated as well as coffee in the mountainous parts of the provinces of Caracas and Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The living animals which we had brought from the Orinoco were objects of great curiosity to the inhabitants of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 At my arrival in Terra Firma, I was struck with the connection between the destruction of Cumana on the 14th of December, 1797, and the eruption of the volcanoes in the smaller West India Islands. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Notwithstanding the elevation of the spot, the sky is generally less blue at Caracas than at Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The suburbs of Cumana are almost as populous as the ancient town. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The following is the series of phenomena remarked on the northern coasts of Cumana, Nueva Barcelona, and Caracas; and presumed to be connected with the causes which produce earthquakes and eruptions of lava. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Probably the government of Cumana will one day take advantage of the possession of this inland gulf and of that of Mochima,* eight leagues east of the bad road of Nueva Barcelona. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 We remained a month longer at Cumana, employing ourselves in the necessary preparations for our proposed visit to the Orinoco and the Rio Negro. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The connection between these systems was manifested in the Andes by a phenomenon which I have already had occasion to notice, in speaking of the last destruction of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 As the inhabitants of Cumana prefer the coolness of the sea breeze to the sight of vegetation, their favourite walk is the open shore. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The inhabitants of Cumana showed us the kindest interest. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 We again passed a few agreeable days, from the third to the fifth of November, at the peninsula of Araya, situated beyond the gulf of Cariaco, opposite to Cumana.* Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 I have often seen at Cumana a great scintillation of the stars of Orion and Sagittarius, when Saussure's hygrometer was at 85 degrees. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The inhabitants of Cumana, and of many other places between the tropics, have long since observed that atmospherical changes, which are, to appearance, the most accidental, succeed each other for whole weeks with astonishing regularity. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The arid plain of Cumana exhibits after violent showers an extraordinary phenomenon. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Maroa is south-west of Cumana, at one hundred and seventy-four leagues distance. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The port of Cumana was every day more and more closely blockaded, and the vain expectation of the arrival of Spanish packets detained us two months and a half longer. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 A phenomenon analogous to that which appeared on the 12th of November at Cumana, was observed thirty years previously on the table-land of the Andes, in a country studded with volcanoes. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The skill of the Guaiqueria pilots is so great, that accidents are very rare, even in the frequent trips they make from Cumana to Guadaloupe, or the Danish islands, which are surrounded with breakers. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 We had been recommended to the friars who govern the Missions of the Chayma Indians, by their syndic, who resides at Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The reddish vapour which at Cumana had spread a mist over the horizon a little before sunset, disappeared after the 7th of November. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The friendship of the governor of Cumana and the remembrance of the services he had rendered to the rising commerce of those countries contributed to procure his liberty. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The whole of the country beyond the llanos is unknown to the inhabitants of Cumana and Caracas. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The boat which conveyed us from Cumana to La Guayra, was one of those employed in trading between the coasts and the West India Islands. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 It is generally observed in the province of Cumana and Caracas only at 400 or 500 toises of elevation.* Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 In depicting the manners of the inhabitants of Paria and Cumana, it was thought that the manners of all the inhabitants of the new continent were described. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The town of Barcelona has not, like Cumana, an Indian suburb; and the only natives who are seen there are inhabitants of the neighbouring missions or of huts scattered in the plain. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The eclipse terminated at 2 hours 14 minutes 23.4 seconds mean time, at Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The road by land from Cumana to New Barcelona, and thence to Caracas, is nearly in the same state as that in which it was before the discovery of America. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Young guacharos have been sent to the port of Cumana, and have lived there several days without taking any nourishment, the seeds offered to them not suiting their taste. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 In returning from Caracas to Cumana, the road by land is sometimes preferred to the passage by sea, to avoid the adverse current. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 A man who hewed building timber in the forests on the coast of Paria was paid at Cumana 45 to 50 sous a day, without his food. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 We often saw persons, who had followed him, arrive at Cumana ill of nervous and miasmatic fevers. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 M. Bonpland recognised the cuspare in the vegetation of the gulf of Santa Fe, situated between the ports of Cumana and Barcelona. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 It would have been painful to have touched at Cumana, or at Guayra, without visiting the interior of a country so little frequented by naturalists. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 At Cumana, and everywhere in the plains, the temperature from eleven in the morning to eleven at night changes only 2 or 3 degrees. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 We prolonged our stay at Cumana only a fortnight. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The difference of meridian between Cumana and the town of Barcelona, where I made a great number of astronomical observations in 1800, is 34 minutes 48 seconds. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 In the mountainous regions which we have just traversed,—in the two provinces of Cumana and New Barcelona, the natives, or primitive inhabitants, still constitute about one-half of the scanty population. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The governor of Cumana sent, in 1797, a band of determined men to explore this entirely desert country, and to open a direct road to New Barcelona, by the summit of the Mesa. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 But since the direction of the bolides was not the same at Labrador and at Cumana, why were they not perceived in the latter place towards the north, as at Cayenne? Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The total mass of this chain of rocks appears to me a limestone agglomerate, somewhat analogous to the earthy limestone of the peninsula of Araya, near Cumana, but of much more recent formation. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 We quitted the shore of Cumana as if it had long been our home. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Cumana and its dusty soil are still more frequently present to my imagination, than all the wonders of the Cordilleras. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The port of Cumana is a roadstead capable of receiving the fleets of Europe. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Notwithstanding the inconsiderable elevation of the mountains of Cumana, the descent is extremely difficult and dangerous in the direction of Cariaco. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 This is probably the most elevated valley in the provinces of Venezuela and Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The Indians of Cumana do not all live within the Missions. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The Cerro of Santa Maria, which the missionaries ascend in their journey from Cumana to their convent at Caripe, is famous for the difficulties it presents to travellers. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Majestic forests cover this Cordillera of the interior, and they are joined by a woody vale to the open clayey lands and salt marshes of the environs of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 These earthquakes have a particular centre of action, and seldom extend as far as Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Its direction was from north to south, which is rare at Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Scarcely twenty-two months had elapsed since the town of Cumana had been almost totally destroyed by an earthquake. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The sea here forms a sort of bay, a slight inward curve of the land between Cumana and Cape Codera. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 This phenomenon was accompanied by a subterranean, dull, and long continued noise, at the time of the last great earthquake of Cumana. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The length of the passage from Cumana to La Guayra depends on the degree of ease or difficulty with which Cape Codera can be doubled. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The provinces of New Andalusia and Barcelona, comprehended under the name of Govierno de Cumana, at present include in their population more than fourteen tribes. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Almost all the inhabitants of Cumana witnessed this phenomenon, because they had left their houses before four o'clock, to attend the early morning mass. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 But the last-mentioned town, which is surrounded by an immense wood of thorny cactuses, owes its great salubrity, like Cumana, to its barren soil and the absence of rain. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 It appeared to them evident, that since the great earthquakes of Quito and Cumana in 1797, New Andalusia was every day more and more undermined by subterranean fires. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Having proceeded by sea from Cumana to La Guayra, we intended to take up our abode in the town of Caracas, till the end of the rainy season. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 |
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