JOURNAL 



OF A 



RESIDENCE IN COLOMBIA. 



CHAPTER I. 



OBJECT OF THE AUTHORS VISIT TO COLOM- 

 BIA VOYAGE — CARACCAS — EART^HQUAKE 



— CURAjfOA. 



While serving on board the Andromache 

 frigate, in the year 1819, my attention was 

 drawn to the very defective system on which 

 the Pearl-fishery of Colombia was then, and 

 still is, conducted ; and my reflectio|is on 

 the subject having led to the suggestion of 

 new expedients, not only more productive, 

 but calculated to effect a considerable saving 



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