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128 DEPARTURE FROM CUMANA. 
CHAPTER Xi. 
Voyage from Cumana to Guayra. 
Passage from Cumana to La Guayra—Phosphorescence of the Sea— 
Group of the Caraccas and Chimanas—Port of New Barcelona— 
La Guayia—Yellow Fever—Coast and Cape Blanco—Road from 
La Guayra to Caraccas. 
Havine completed the partial investigations which. 
their short residence admitted, and having in some 
measure become acclimatized, the adventurous phi- 
losophers prepared to leave Cumana. Passing by 
sea to La Guayra, they intended to take up their 
abode in the town of Caraccas until the rainy season 
should be over ; from thence to traverse the Llanos, 
or great plains, to the missions of the Orinoco ; to go 
up that river as far as the Rio Negro; and to return, 
to Cumana by Angostura, the capital of Spanish 
Guiana. 
On the 16th November, at eight in the evening, 
they took their passage in one of the boats which 
trade between these coasts and the West India islands. 
They are thirty-two feet long, three feet high at 
the gunwale, without decks, and generally carry 
from 200 to 250 quintals (181 to 226 ewts. avoirdu- 
pois). Although the sea is very rough from Cape 
Codera to La Guayra, and these boats have an 
enormous triangular sail, there had not been an in- 
stance for thirty years of the loss of one of them on 
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