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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 

 CUMANA. 



Landing at Cumana— Introduction to the Governor — State of the Sick — 

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

 the Manzanares — Port of Cumana — Earthquakes; Their Periodicity; 

 Connexion with the State of the Atmosphere ; Gaseous Emanations ; 

 Subterranean Noises; Propagation of Shocks; 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 Mulattoes — Pearl-fishery — Maniquarez — Mexican Deer— Spring 

 of Naphtha 66 



CHAPTER VII. 



MISSIONS OF THE CHAYMAS. 



Excursion to the Missions of the 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 Cocollar — 

 Turimiquiri — Missions of San Antonio and Guanaguana 73 



CHAPTER VIII. 



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 Gulf of 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 

 — Luminous Meteors 104 



