Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II VOYAGE FROM CORUNNA TO TENERIFFE
- CHAPTER III ISLAND OF TENERIFFE
- CHAPTER IV PASSAGE FROM TENERIFFE TO CUMANA
- CHAPTER V CUMANA
- CHAPTER VI RESIDENCE AT CUMANA
- CHAPTER VII MISSIONS OF THE CHAYMAS
- CHAPTER VIII EXCURSION CONTINUED, AND RETURN TO CUMANA
- CHAPTER IX INDIANS OF NEW ANDALUSIA
- CHAPTER X RESIDENCE AT CUMANA
- CHAPTER XI VOYAGE FROM CUMANA TO GUAYBA
- CHAPTER XII CITY OF CARACCAS AND SURROUNDING DISTRICT
- CHAPTER XIII EARTHQUAKES OF CARACCAS
- CHAPTER XIV JOURNEY FROM CARACCAS TO THE LAKE OF VALENCIA
- CHAPTER XV JOURNEY ACROSS THE LLANOS, FROM ARAGUA TO SAN FERNANDO
- CHAPTER XVI VOYAGE DOWN THE RIO APURE
- CHAPTER XVII VOYAGE UP THE ORINOCO
- CHAPTER XVIII VOYAGE UP THE ORINOCO CONTINUED
- CHAPTER XIX ROUTE FROM ESMERALDA TO ANGOSTURA
- CHAPTER XX JOURNEY ACROSS THE LLANOS TO NEW BARCELONA
- CHAPTER XXI PASSAGE TO HAVANNAH, AND RESIDENCE IN CUBA
- CHAPTER XXII VOYAGE FROM CUBA TO CARTHAGENA
- CHAPTER XXIII BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE JOURNEY FROM CARTHAGENA TO QUITO AND MEXICO
- CHAPTER XXIV DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPAIN OR MEXICO
- CHAPTER XXV STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF NEW SPAIN CONTINUED
- CHAPTER XXVI MINES OF NEW SPAIN
- CHAPTER XXVII PASSAGE FROM VERA CRUZ TO CUBA AND PHILADELPHIA, AND VOYAGE TO EUROPE
- CHAPTER XXVIII JOURNEY TO ASIA
CHAPTER XXIII - BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE JOURNEY FROM CARTHAGENA TO QUITO AND MEXICO
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II VOYAGE FROM CORUNNA TO TENERIFFE
- CHAPTER III ISLAND OF TENERIFFE
- CHAPTER IV PASSAGE FROM TENERIFFE TO CUMANA
- CHAPTER V CUMANA
- CHAPTER VI RESIDENCE AT CUMANA
- CHAPTER VII MISSIONS OF THE CHAYMAS
- CHAPTER VIII EXCURSION CONTINUED, AND RETURN TO CUMANA
- CHAPTER IX INDIANS OF NEW ANDALUSIA
- CHAPTER X RESIDENCE AT CUMANA
- CHAPTER XI VOYAGE FROM CUMANA TO GUAYBA
- CHAPTER XII CITY OF CARACCAS AND SURROUNDING DISTRICT
- CHAPTER XIII EARTHQUAKES OF CARACCAS
- CHAPTER XIV JOURNEY FROM CARACCAS TO THE LAKE OF VALENCIA
- CHAPTER XV JOURNEY ACROSS THE LLANOS, FROM ARAGUA TO SAN FERNANDO
- CHAPTER XVI VOYAGE DOWN THE RIO APURE
- CHAPTER XVII VOYAGE UP THE ORINOCO
- CHAPTER XVIII VOYAGE UP THE ORINOCO CONTINUED
- CHAPTER XIX ROUTE FROM ESMERALDA TO ANGOSTURA
- CHAPTER XX JOURNEY ACROSS THE LLANOS TO NEW BARCELONA
- CHAPTER XXI PASSAGE TO HAVANNAH, AND RESIDENCE IN CUBA
- CHAPTER XXII VOYAGE FROM CUBA TO CARTHAGENA
- CHAPTER XXIII BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE JOURNEY FROM CARTHAGENA TO QUITO AND MEXICO
- CHAPTER XXIV DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPAIN OR MEXICO
- CHAPTER XXV STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF NEW SPAIN CONTINUED
- CHAPTER XXVI MINES OF NEW SPAIN
- CHAPTER XXVII PASSAGE FROM VERA CRUZ TO CUBA AND PHILADELPHIA, AND VOYAGE TO EUROPE
- CHAPTER XXVIII JOURNEY TO ASIA
Summary
It has been already stated that Humboldt, previously to leaving Paris, had promised Baudin, that should his projected expedition to the southern hemisphere ever take place, he would endeavour to join it; and also that information received by him at Cuba had induced him to relinquish plans subsequently formed, and re-embark for the continent of South America, with the view of proceeding to Guayaquil or Lima, where he expected to meet the navigators. Accordingly he went to Carthagena, where he learned that the season was too far advanced for sailing from Panama to Guayaquil. Giving up, therefore, his intention of crossing the isthmus of Panama, he passed some days in the forests of Turbaco, and afterwards made preparations for ascending the Rio Magdalena.
This river, from its sources near the equator, flows almost directly north. “Nature,” says a traveller who sailed up it in 1823, “seems to have designedly dug the bed of the Magdalena in the midst of the cordilleras of Colombia, to form a canal of communication between the mountains and the sea; yet it would have made nothing but an unnavigable torrent, had not its course been stopped in many parts by masses of rock disposed in such a manner as to break its violence. Its waters thus arrested flow gently into the plains of the provinces of Santa Martha and Carthagena, which they fertilize and refresh by their evaporation.
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- The Travels and Researches of Alexander von HumboldtBeing a Condensed Narrative of his Journeys in the Equinoctial Regions of America, and in Asiatic Russia; Together with Analyses of his More Important Investigations, pp. 323 - 342Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1832