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Schomburgk, for I know too little of them to speak without the fear of making mistakes.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Twenty years after Waterton walked across the Guianas, the botanist Robert Schomburgk confirmed that the curare of the Macusi Indians was derived from Strychnos toxifera.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Twenty years after Waterton walked across the Guianas, the botanist Robert Schomburgk confirmed that the curare of the Macusi Indians was derived from Strychnos toxifera.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Hist. of W. Indies_ (1827); Schomburgk, _History of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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In 1840 England commissioned a surveyor named Schomburgk to fix the boundary but his decision was objected to by the Venezuelans who claimed that he included a great area that rightfully belonged to them.
The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley
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Schomburgk (Sir R.), arrowroot forwarded by, 352 discovers a new tuberous plant, 374 discovers wild plantains, 320
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Schomburgk tells that among the Arawaks, after a Mariquawi dance, so great is their zeal for honorable scars, the blood will run down their swollen calves, and strips of skin and muscle hang from the mangled limbs.
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Schomburgk tells that among the Arawaks, after a Mariquawi dance, so great is their zeal for honorable scars, the blood will run down their swollen calves, and strips of skin and muscle hang from the mangled limbs.
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According to Schomburgk, on the death of her husband, an
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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To the instances previously cited I may add what Schomburgk says in his book on
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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