The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests. With Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living Forms |
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... Migration of the Ants from a Nest attacked - Corrosive Sublimate causes a sort
of Madness amongst them - Indian plan of preventing their ascending young
Trees - Leaf - cutting Ants are fungus - growers and eatersSagacity of the Ants . .
... Migration of the Ants from a Nest attacked - Corrosive Sublimate causes a sort
of Madness amongst them - Indian plan of preventing their ascending young
Trees - Leaf - cutting Ants are fungus - growers and eatersSagacity of the Ants . .
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On our right was a sandy beach , on our left great beds of grass growing out of
the shoal water - weedy banks filling up the once spacious harbour , and cattle
wading amongst the long grass , where within the last twenty years a frigate has
lain ...
On our right was a sandy beach , on our left great beds of grass growing out of
the shoal water - weedy banks filling up the once spacious harbour , and cattle
wading amongst the long grass , where within the last twenty years a frigate has
lain ...
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Others are nearly hidden amongst palms and bread - fruit , orange , mango , and
other tropical fruit trees . A lovely creeper ( Antigonon leptopus ) , with festoons of
pink and rose - coloured flowers , adorns some of the gardens . It is called la ...
Others are nearly hidden amongst palms and bread - fruit , orange , mango , and
other tropical fruit trees . A lovely creeper ( Antigonon leptopus ) , with festoons of
pink and rose - coloured flowers , adorns some of the gardens . It is called la ...
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Surrounding the cleared portions around Greytown is a scrubby bush , amongst
which are many guayava trees ( Psidium sp . ) having a fruit like a small apple
filled with seeds , of a sub - acid flavour , from which the celebrated guava jelly is
...
Surrounding the cleared portions around Greytown is a scrubby bush , amongst
which are many guayava trees ( Psidium sp . ) having a fruit like a small apple
filled with seeds , of a sub - acid flavour , from which the celebrated guava jelly is
...
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When a clear space in the brushwood is to be crossed , such as a road , two or
three of the females will fly across first , before the male will venture to do so ; and
he is always more careful to get himself concealed amongst the foliage than his ...
When a clear space in the brushwood is to be crossed , such as a road , two or
three of the females will fly across first , before the male will venture to do so ; and
he is always more careful to get himself concealed amongst the foliage than his ...
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| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests. With Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living Forms |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1874 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 aug. 2008 |
| Length | 403 pages |
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