LITERATURE

... the native tribes of Panamv and Central America, and even some coincidences in the names of places around the Mexican and Caribbean seas. Two distinct styles of costure may be recognised in paintings of aboriginal Americans; and the cinctureeand wreath ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... and the Franklin, of the Havre line, which sails on the 5th proximo, touchingat Southampton, will go full. The steamship Caribbean, now very nearly completed, will be run between New York and England, and, should the demand justify, other steamers will ...

Published: Sunday 30 March 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2450 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF NORTH AMERICA

... Is an opening from the Gulf of Mexico into the f Caribbean Sea. It may here be as easily named as anywhere, ) that the heated waters of the South Atlantio Ocean pass in a Z.current through the Caribbean Sea, and through the opening last named into the ...

LITERATURE

... hroad. ft is 12 il. frotn thle hi Pacific, froum which it ii separated by a ridge of volcanic su hills, atllt S0 from the Caribbean Sea. It receives the at wateis ?? Le;e Leoe fron tbte N.A., and di y targeshythe bi Sait Jisas i nto the Caribhban Sea. h-eight ...

LITERATURE

... idea of e, clanging the ancient Panama route to that from ed Puerto Caballos (or Cortez) on the Atlantic, or ter rather Caribbean Sea, to the bay of Fonseca in the !x- South Sea, is by no means a novelty, It was sug- us gested as early as 1556 by Juan ...

LITERATURE

... evangelical and national antipathies to the Pepibtical Empire of Spain, E sailed forth to make prize of rich galleons in the c Caribbean sea, or to make havoc of the new Spanish E ports and settlements on the rivers of NorthAmerica. E Yet the peaceful colonists ...

LITERATURE

... with a strong belief in its le accuracy; and it will be seen by the following pas- ci sage, descriptive of a sunset in the Caribbean Sea, Pi that the author is able to depict with minute fidelity Be an appearance not easily referable to ordinary T standards ...

TWO GHOST STORIES; WITH A MORAL

... In ian Ocean, the spotted corals are plainly visible under twenty-five fathoms of water. The crystalline clearness of the Caribbean sea excited the admirajios of Colusnbtss, who, in tice piliruit of his great dis- coveries, ever retained an open eye for ...

THEATRICALS IN THE CHRISTMAS WEEK

... Mr. Telbin's genius, and came in 'cl oe shaxe of applause; it was certainly a grand scene. There vda l-losp-dr-dooden-doo Caribbean dance in it, which was ?? maianed. The next scene was another glorious one of ';nr-the Virgin Forest-in which primeval ...

Published: Sunday 30 December 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 23200 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... degree of longi- tude, west of Greenwich. It has a coast line of 4,200 miles on the Pacific Ocean, and of 1,600 miles on the Caribbean Sea. It is watered by nu- merous rivers, the largest of which, the Bravo del Norte, after a course of 1,427 miles, empties ...

PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE

... simulated. Among the Caribbeans, HUMBOLDT says, to such an extent do all the tribes depend on aggression for their wives, that the women of every tribe were found to belong to different tribes, and nowhere were the men and women of the Caribbean race found to ...

PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE

... simulated. Among the Caribbeans, HUMBOLDT says, to such an extent do all the tribes depend on aggression for their wives, that the women of every tribe were found to belong to different tribes, and nowhere were the men and women of the Caribbean race found to ...