[Footnote 92:  Voyage aux Regions Equinoctiales du Nouveau Continent, Paris, 1826.]

[Footnote 93:  “Kleyn pleysterhuisye,” small plaster house.]

[Footnote 94:  As an example of the credulity of the people of the period, see Theodore Bry’s work in the library of Congress in Washington, in which there is a map of Guiana, published in Frankfort in 1599.  On it are depicted with short descriptions the lake of Parmie and the city of Manao, which represent El Dorado, in search of which hundreds of Spaniards and thousands of Indians lost their lives.  There is a picture of one of the Amazons, with a short notice of their habits and customs, and there is the portrait of one of the inhabitants of the country Twai-Panoma, who were born without heads, but had eyes, nose, and mouth conveniently located in their breast.]

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FLINTER, COLONEL.—­An Account of the Present State of the Island of Puerto Rico.  London, 1834.

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NAZARIO, D. JOSE MARIA.—­Guayanilla y la historia de Puerto Rico.  Ponce, 1893.

PEREZ MORIS, D. JOSE, Y CUETO, D. LUIS.—­Historia de la insurreccion de Lares.