VENEZUELA.
52
Poor people, and those who
large pit, called a carnero.
do not choose to pay for the three once
in the grounds of the
I observed the words
Calentura Amarilla in
are buried
pigeon-holes,
cemetery.
many
lodgment in the
3'ears'
at
of the epitaphs, which told plainly of the ravages of
Humboldt mentions
the yellow fever.
been known at
La
yards, I
having appeared at Caracas.
its
I had ridden past the
came
in length,
to a
had
Guaii^a only two years before his arrival,
and says nothing of Ai'ter
that this disease
cemetery a few hundred
mound about one hmidred and
and was told that
this
fifty feet
marked the spot where the
persons who died in the great outbreak of cholera a few
The
years ago, were buried. that
it
numerous
victims were so
was quite impossible to inter
them
separately, so a
very long deep trench was dug, and the dead were brought
and cast mto
in carts
the
German
it.
They
are
bui'ial-ground
and
outskii^ts of the city,
and
compared with the Catholic ceme-
are very poor places as tery.
The English
on the southern
are
both covered with weeds, but, in the
British burial-ground, the rank gi'ass
is
so tall that
impossible to see the gTaves, and the whole place ant-hills
several feet high.
inscription to say sole
expense.
man who,
it
was
built
This
city, is
the
Cai'acas with water. ravine, it.
is
is
full of
a chapel, with an
by Robert Ker Porter
at his
name
of a
had come from the Caspian Gates
to this distant country of the
a visit.
is
I felt interested in seeing the
like mj^self,
North of the
There
it
West.
I found only one other place worth
Toma, It
is
or reservon, which supplies situated
in a thickly-wooded
and a very narrow path among the bushes leads to
It is
necessary to tread with caution here,
as,
on