10 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



CUMANA. 



Landing at Cuinana— Introiluction to tho Governor— State of the Sick- 

 Description of the Country and City of Cuinana— Mode of Bathing in 

 the Manzanares— Port of Cumana— Earthquaiies ; Tlieir Periodicity ; 

 Connexion with the State of the Atmosptiere ; Gaseous Emanations; 

 Subterranean Noises ; Propagation of Sliocks ; Connexion between 

 those of Cumana and the West Indies ; and general Phenomena. . . 59 



CHAPTER VI. 



RESIDENCE AT CUMANA. 



Lunar Halo— African Slaves— Excursion to the Peninsula of Araya— 

 Geological Constitution of the Country— Salt-works of Araya — Indians 

 and Mulaltoes — Pearl-fishery — Maiiiquarez — Mexican Deer— Spring 

 of Naphtha 66 



CHAPTER VII. 



MISSIONS OF THE CHAYMAS. 



Excursion to the Missions of tlie Chayma Indians— Remarks on Cul- 

 tivation — The Impossible — Aspect of the Vegetation — San Fernando — 

 Account of a Man who suckled a Child— Cumanacoa — Cultivation of 

 Tobacco— Igneous Exhalations — Jaguars — Mountain of CocoUar — 

 Turimiquiri— Missions of San Antonio and Guanaguana 73 



CHAPTER Vin. 



EXCURSION CONTINUED, AND RETURN TO CUMANA. 



Convent of Caripe— Cave of Guacharo, inhabited by Nocturnal Birds- 

 Purgatory— Forest Scenery — Howling Monkeys — Vera Cruz — Cariaco 

 — Intermittent Fevers — Cocoa-trees — Passage across the Gulfof Cari- 

 aco to Cumana 86 



CHAPTER IX. 



INDIANS OF NEW-ANDALUSIA. 



Physical Constitution and Manners of the Chaymas— Their Languages 

 —American Races 96 



CHAPTER X. 



RESIDENCE AT CUMANA. 



Residence at Cumana— Attack of a Zambo — Eclipse of the Sun- 

 Extraordinary Atmospherical Phenomena— Shocks of an Earthquake 

 — Ltiminous Mcleors 104 



