[11] Travels in Peru and India.
[12] Gosse’s “Romance of Natural History.”
[13] Romance of Natural History.
[14] A species of Mimosa.
[15] Slavery has since been abolished in Venezuela.
[16] “Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America.”
[17] Andres Bello.
[18] Sullivan.—Rambles and Scrambles in North and South America.
[19] Linnæus, in his enthusiasm for the delightful beverage obtained from the cacao bean, named the plant that produces it theobroma—food for the gods.
[20] Journeys across the Pampas.