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" ... farther and farther from her hut and her native country. She succeeded in breaking her bonds, threw herself into the water, and swam to the left bank of the Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She... "
The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von Humboldt - Page 162
by Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 482 pages
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Herbert's Poems: pt. 1. Translations from the German, Danish, etc. (lacking ...

William Herbert - 1804 - 772 pages
...left bank of the Atabapo. The current canned her to a shelf of rock which bears her name to this day. She landed and took shelter in the woods, but the...evening she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock (la piedra de la Madre) a cruel punishment was inflicted on her with those straps of manatee leather,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 pages
...bank of the Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed, and took shelter in the woods, but the...evening she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock (la Piedra de la Madre) a cruel punishment was indicted on her with those straps of manatee leather,...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 25

1821 - 604 pages
...bank of the Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed, and took shelter in the woods, but the...evening she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock (la Piedra de la Madre) a cruel punishment was inflicted on her with those straps of manatee leather,...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions ..., Volume 5, Part 1

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1821 - 524 pages
...bank of the Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed, and took shelter in the woods, but the...evening she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock (la Piedra de la Madre) a cruel punishment was inflicted on her with those straps of manatee 235 leather,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 pages
...Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She lauded, and took shelter in the woods, but the president of...evening she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock (la Piedra de la Madre) a cruel punishment was inflicted on her with those straps of manatee leather,...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 88

1821 - 676 pages
...current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed, and took iheltcr in the woods, but the president of the missions ordered the Indians to row to the shore, and follow the tracée of the Guahiba. In the evening she Wai brought back. Stretched upon the rock, (la Piedra He...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

1822 - 820 pages
...bank of the Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed, and took shelter in the woods, but the...to row to the shore, and follow the traces of the Guahibi. In the evening she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock (la Piedra dc la Madre) a cruel...
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The cabinet; or The selected beauties of literature [ed. by J ..., Volume 1

Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...bank of the Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed and took shelter in the woods, but the president of the missions ordered the In. dians to row to the shore, and follow the traces of the Guahibi. In the evening she was brought...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 26

1826 - 600 pages
...bank of the Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed, and took shelter in the woods, but the...evening she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock (la Piedra de la Madre) a cruel punishment was inflicted on her with those straps of manatee leather,...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 20

Reuben Percy - 1826 - 440 pages
...bank of the Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed, and took shelter in the woods ; but the...to the shore, and follow the traces of the Guahiba. lu the evening, she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock, la Piedra de la Madre, a cruel punishment...
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