...VIII. Rewards fixed for services and for injuries. -- An expedition up Chagres River -- 1200 men exposed to the dangers of tropical floods and starvat... ... them to the Spanish -- A thrilling adventure at the crossing of the St. Lucia River -- Trouble with a Spanish viceroy -- His vessels are damaged by a... ....................................................... 348 Scene on the La Plata River............................................. 349 Patagonians chal... ...s time, Queen Semiramis made an expedition into India, and in the mouth of the river Indus gave battle to king Spabrobates and destroyed a thousand of... ...used a canal to be cut between the Red Sea and an arm of the Nile entering the river where the city of Heroum then stood. The building of this canal w... ...ng exchanges of goods as those of Asia and Europe do at Nishni Novgorod on the Volga to-day. Thus Ormus became in its day one of the richest cities on...