. The earth and its inhabitants ... n many places on the mainland.* The aborigines, all half-breeds, have preserved nothing of their native languageexcept certain forms of incantation and medical recipes. Till recently theydeposited their dead in large cone-shaped vessels, which were buried under littlebarrows. The Spanish conquerors found in Aruba a populous city abounding inthe precious metals, which gave rise to the whimsical and evidently erroneousetymology of the name Aruba (Oruba) : Oro hubo ! Heie was gold ! At presentonly faint traces of the precious metals can be detected in the rocks
. The earth and its inhabitants ... n many places on the mainland.* The aborigines, all half-breeds, have preserved nothing of their native languageexcept certain forms of incantation and medical recipes. Till recently theydeposited their dead in large cone-shaped vessels, which were buried under littlebarrows. The Spanish conquerors found in Aruba a populous city abounding inthe precious metals, which gave rise to the whimsical and evidently erroneousetymology of the name Aruba (Oruba) : Oro hubo ! Heie was gold ! At presentonly faint traces of the precious metals can be detected in the rocks of the to the geologist Martin, Aruba was the last member of the Leewardgroup to be separated from the mainland. Here are still seen some species ofanimals which have disappeared from Buen Aire and Curaçao; such especiallyare a species of parrokeet, a frog, and a rattlesnake. In recent times indicationshave been observed of an upheaval of the coasts. * Alph. Pinart, Exploration de Curaçao et dAruba. CHAPTER VENEZUELA. I. HIS Hispano-American state appears, like the New World itself, tohave acquired its name in a haphazard sort of way, perhaps froman incident connected with the voyage of Amerigo Vespucci. In1499, when Hojeda, in company with the Florentine, penetratedfor the first time into the inland sea or lagoon of Coquibacoa,now called Maracaibo, he noticed on the east side a group of some twenty cabinserected on piles, surrounded by gondolas, and communicating with, each otherby crazy drawbridges. The little lacustrine town, mirrored in the still waters ofthe lagoon, seemed to the travellers like a Venezuela or Little Venice, andit may be presumed that Vespucci, as an Italian, was not the less struck by theresemblance. The name thus casually given to the cluster of huts gradually extended to thesurrounding shores, where pile dwellings were at that time very numerous, andthen to the whole region. It thus eventually replaced the expression, Costa Fer
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