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... Porto Velho . B R AMAZON R. GO RAILROAD MADE RA L UNEXPLORED SANTO FRANCISCO PORTO VELHO MADEIRA FALLS FALLS GIRO BENA ARI POM MAMOR 109 But the indomitable pluck of the American engineers finally conquered the jungle , that had beaten ...
... Porto Velho . B R AMAZON R. GO RAILROAD MADE RA L UNEXPLORED SANTO FRANCISCO PORTO VELHO MADEIRA FALLS FALLS GIRO BENA ARI POM MAMOR 109 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 The railroad construc- town of several thousand .. is water grade all the distance ...
... 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 The railroad construc- town of several thousand .. is water grade all the distance ...
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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 & MANORE " 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 & MANORE " 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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