venezuela Venez vene venezuelan zuel uelas ex M mayor abor hewitt ot of new york davs of venezuela it is generally understood among veople people interested in mining minina enterprises that venezuela is ex extremely unhealthy it lies close to the equator and a very great portion ol of it is a swain swamp p from this swampy region rise miasmatic exhalations exha lations which makes it impossible for the white men to live there at all and even for the native very dangerous every year there are inundations and overflow ings of the rivers and the swamps become a veritable sex se of gases no white man can work in the mines for three days without takings a fever and it is a region 30 30 one should T desire to own but which everybody should desire to get rid of I 1 should consider it criminal to organize a company to work these gold fields the white men would turn the mines into a vast mausoleum