The Technical World Magazine, Volume 20Technical World Company, 1913 |
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... Porto Velho . B R AMAZON R. MADE RA L GOO RAILROAD UNEXPLORED SANTO FRANCISCO SANT PORTO VELHO ΒΕΝΛ MADEIRA FALLS FALLS GIRORIE ARIPON TA But the indomitable pluck of the American engineers finally conquered the jungle that had beaten ...
... Porto Velho . B R AMAZON R. MADE RA L GOO RAILROAD UNEXPLORED SANTO FRANCISCO SANT PORTO VELHO ΒΕΝΛ MADEIRA FALLS FALLS GIRORIE ARIPON TA But the indomitable pluck of the American engineers finally conquered the jungle that had beaten ...
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... Porto Velho , the sea- ward terminal , was built a few hundred miles up the Madeira . Five years ago it was a palm - thatched village . Now it is a town of several thousand . The railroad construc- tion men literally cut the jungle away ...
... Porto Velho , the sea- ward terminal , was built a few hundred miles up the Madeira . Five years ago it was a palm - thatched village . Now it is a town of several thousand . The railroad construc- tion men literally cut the jungle away ...
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... PORTO VELHO. began one of those seemingly intermin- able boundary disputes peculiar to Latin- American nations . Both claimed the Acré district watered by the Rio Mutum- parana , the Madeira , and the Mamoré . a section larger than the ...
... PORTO VELHO. began one of those seemingly intermin- able boundary disputes peculiar to Latin- American nations . Both claimed the Acré district watered by the Rio Mutum- parana , the Madeira , and the Mamoré . a section larger than the ...
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... Porto Velho with dying black men . White men devoured quinine to ward off jungle fevers , but the death rate among them was high in spite of all precautions . Men who worked on this railway claim that region is the white man's grave of ...
... Porto Velho with dying black men . White men devoured quinine to ward off jungle fevers , but the death rate among them was high in spite of all precautions . Men who worked on this railway claim that region is the white man's grave of ...
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HOTEL MADEIRA & AMORE " FIVE YEARS AGO PORTO VELHO WAS A PALM- THATCHED VILLAGE . NOW IT IS A TOWN OF SEVERAL ... Porto Velho and the jungle took them. the tangled thicket to build this metropolis of the tropics . 26 TECHNICAL WORLD ...
HOTEL MADEIRA & AMORE " FIVE YEARS AGO PORTO VELHO WAS A PALM- THATCHED VILLAGE . NOW IT IS A TOWN OF SEVERAL ... Porto Velho and the jungle took them. the tangled thicket to build this metropolis of the tropics . 26 TECHNICAL WORLD ...
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