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Time will decide, and Time is the only truthful judge. The Admiral likewise discusses the question whether or not Paria is a continent; he himself thinks it is. Paria lies to the south of Hispaniola, a distance of 882 leagues, according to Columbus.
The following year, for some unknown purpose, he crossed the Colorado at the Paria, though he knew that Powell's parties had previously mapped this area.
They were constantly together, and never tired of each other's society; and at last, when their tutor, observing and thoroughly approving of the friendship, put them both in the same room, the school began in fun to call them Achilles and Patroclus, Damon and Pythias, Orestes and Pylades, David and Jonathan, Theseus and Pirithous, and as many other names of paria amicorum as they could remember.
So over we got, and through much mud, and up mountains some fifteen hundred feet high, on which the vegetation was even richer than any we had seen before; and down the other side, with the great lowland and the Gulf of Paria opening before us.
The whole southern two thirds of Trinidad represent a wear and tear which is not to be counted by thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of years; and yet which, I verily believe, has taken place since the average plants, trees, and animals of the island dwelt therein. This elevation may have well coincided with the depression of the neighbouring Gulf of Paria.
This observation is connected with opinions which geologists have long formed respecting the position of the high chains of mountains, and the direction of their steepest declivities; but the existence of the Cordillera of Caracas, and the frequency of the oscillations on the eastern and northern coast of Terra Firma, in the gulf of Paria, at Carupano, at Cariaco, and at Cumana, render the accuracy of that opinion doubtful.
At last he arrived at a place which the natives told him was called Paria, and where they also informed him that, to the westward, the country was more populous. Proceeding onwards, the admiral came to a place where the women had pearl bracelets, and, on his enquiring where these came from, they made signs, directing him out of the Gulf of Paria towards the island of Cubagua.
Parentage of Cavendish Sails with Sir Richard Grenville to the West Indies Introduced to the Queen Fits out expedition for the South Sea Sails from Plymouth Lands at Sierra Leone Attacks a negro town Passage across the Atlantic Anchors off coast of Brazil Puts into Port Desire Large size of natives Attacked by them Enters the Straits of Magellan A deserted Spanish colony One man rescued San Felipe visited Port Famine Enters the Pacific The squadron puts into Mocha Obtains provisions by a mistake of the natives An expedition on shore at Quintero Twelve of the crew cut off Anchors off Moron Moreno Degraded natives Proceedings at Areca Prisoners taken and tortured Payta plundered The island of Paria and its wealthy cacique The English surprised by Spaniards Several killed Cavendish burns the place Several vessels captured Cocoa found on board a prize Some persons made prisoners on shore held captive till provisions are brought In search of the Manilla galleon She is attacked and captured The prisoners well treated The Santa Anna set on fire The Desire and Content set sail Ersola, a pilot, carried off The Content lost sight of No tidings ever received of her The ship touches at Guham and proceeds on to the Philippines Treachery of Ersola discovered He is hung A Spanish frigate put to flight Death of Captain Havers Java reached Reception by the Rajah The Indian Ocean crossed A tempest Passes the Cape of Good Hope Touches at Saint Helena Hears of the defeat of the Spanish Armada Enters Plymouth with silken sails Knighted by Queen Elizabeth Sails on a second voyage Numerous disasters Dies of a broken heart.
Many of them testify also that the coast south of Paria, and that extending west of the island of Margarita, away to Venezuela, which Vespucci states to have been discovered by himself, in 1497, was now first discovered by Ojeda, and had never before been visited either by the admiral "or any other Christian whatever."
The upper surface of the plateau inclines to the northeast, so that its waters roll off into the Sevier; but from the foot of the cliffs, quite around the sharp angle of the plateau, for a dozen miles, we find numerous springs, whose waters unite to form the Kanab. A little farther to the northeast the springs gather into streams that feed the Paria.
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