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EDITOR'S PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
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Preparations—Instruments — Departure from Spain—Landing at the Canary Islands . . . . . .
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Stay at Teneriffe—Journey from Santa Cruz to Orotava—Excursion to the summit of the Peak of Teyde
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CHAPTER III. Passage from Teneriffe to South America—The Island of Tobago— Arrival at Cumana . . . . . . CHAPTER
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First abode at Cumana—Banks of the Manzanares
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Peninsula of Araya—Salt-marshes —Ruins of the Castle of Santiago
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CHAPTER VI. Mountains of New Andalusia—Valley of the Cumanacoa—Summit the Cocollar—Missions of the Chayma Indians
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