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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... and a hundred others , that make every big tree an aërial botanical garden .
Great arums are perched on the forks and send down roots like cords to the
ground , whilst lianas run from tree to tree or hang in loops and folds like the
disordered ...
... and a hundred others , that make every big tree an aërial botanical garden .
Great arums are perched on the forks and send down roots like cords to the
ground , whilst lianas run from tree to tree or hang in loops and folds like the
disordered ...
Page 14
Our boatmen paddled on until nine o ' clock , when we anchored in the middle of
the stream , which was here about one hundred yards wide . Distant as we were
from the shores , we were not too far for the mosquitoes , which came off in ...
Our boatmen paddled on until nine o ' clock , when we anchored in the middle of
the stream , which was here about one hundred yards wide . Distant as we were
from the shores , we were not too far for the mosquitoes , which came off in ...
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I have sometimes followed them up for two or three hundred yards without getting
to the end . They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees , and
sometimes underneath large fallen trunks that offer suitable hollows . A nest that I
came ...
I have sometimes followed them up for two or three hundred yards without getting
to the end . They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees , and
sometimes underneath large fallen trunks that offer suitable hollows . A nest that I
came ...
Page 30
... of the boatmen leaping on shore soon shot one , which he brought on board
after cutting out a gland on its back that emits a musky odour , and we afterwards
had it cooked for our dinner . These Wari go in herds of from fifty to one hundred .
... of the boatmen leaping on shore soon shot one , which he brought on board
after cutting out a gland on its back that emits a musky odour , and we afterwards
had it cooked for our dinner . These Wari go in herds of from fifty to one hundred .
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San Carlos is at the head of the river , where it issues from the great Lake of
Nicaragua , about one hundred and twenty miles from Greytown . The mean level
of the waters of the lake , according to the survey of Colonel 0 . W . Childs , in
1851 ...
San Carlos is at the head of the river , where it issues from the great Lake of
Nicaragua , about one hundred and twenty miles from Greytown . The mean level
of the waters of the lake , according to the survey of Colonel 0 . W . Childs , in
1851 ...
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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 |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1874 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 aug. 2008 |
| Length | 403 pages |
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