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... kind of Federal Republic , with an Emperor instead of a President . The established religion is the Roman Catholic , but the utmost liberty and equality may be said to exist in this and all other matters affecting foreigners , who find ...
... kind of Federal Republic , with an Emperor instead of a President . The established religion is the Roman Catholic , but the utmost liberty and equality may be said to exist in this and all other matters affecting foreigners , who find ...
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... kind and obliging to strangers , many of them talking English and French fluently . The signs of good government and administration are visible on all sides ; the arsenal , city prison , & c . resemble what you would look for in England ...
... kind and obliging to strangers , many of them talking English and French fluently . The signs of good government and administration are visible on all sides ; the arsenal , city prison , & c . resemble what you would look for in England ...
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... kind of river - hog called capibari , not different from the carpincho of Ar- gentine waters ; lizards of great size are also seen ; these animals seem to prefer the swamps , where there is no noise of steamboat to disturb them . All ...
... kind of river - hog called capibari , not different from the carpincho of Ar- gentine waters ; lizards of great size are also seen ; these animals seem to prefer the swamps , where there is no noise of steamboat to disturb them . All ...
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... kind it is difficult to realise the nature and importance of these settle- ments . Imagine to yourself , reader , a country nearly as large as Belgium or Holland cut out of these Brazilian forests , where the inhabitants are exclusively ...
... kind it is difficult to realise the nature and importance of these settle- ments . Imagine to yourself , reader , a country nearly as large as Belgium or Holland cut out of these Brazilian forests , where the inhabitants are exclusively ...
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... kind are of bricks , with a wooden half - story under the sloping roof . Many , however , are of mud and canes , or made in a species of framework , with the large cross - beams conspicuous , as in most of the hamlets of Germany ...
... kind are of bricks , with a wooden half - story under the sloping roof . Many , however , are of mud and canes , or made in a species of framework , with the large cross - beams conspicuous , as in most of the hamlets of Germany ...
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