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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PAGE Comoapa - A Native Doctor - Vultures - Flight of Birds that Soar - Natives
live from generation to generation on the same spotDo not give distinctive Names
to the Rivers - Caribs barter Guns and Iron - pots for Dogs — The Hairless Dogs ...
PAGE Comoapa - A Native Doctor - Vultures - Flight of Birds that Soar - Natives
live from generation to generation on the same spotDo not give distinctive Names
to the Rivers - Caribs barter Guns and Iron - pots for Dogs — The Hairless Dogs ...
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Whilst the leaf - cutting ants are entirely vegetable feeders , the foraging ants are
hunters , and live solely on insects or other prey ; and it is a curious analogy that ,
like the hunting races of mankind , they have to change their hunting - grounds ...
Whilst the leaf - cutting ants are entirely vegetable feeders , the foraging ants are
hunters , and live solely on insects or other prey ; and it is a curious analogy that ,
like the hunting races of mankind , they have to change their hunting - grounds ...
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... generations as he can fancy , will all live both plentifully and happily . "
CHAPTER III . Journey up River continued — Wild Pigs.
... generations as he can fancy , will all live both plentifully and happily . "
CHAPTER III . Journey up River continued — Wild Pigs.
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... live in one house . The floor is kept well cleaned . I was amused with a lady in
San Carlos who , in describing their well - kept houses to Dr . Seemann and
myself , pointed to her own unswept and littered earth floor and said , “ They keep
...
... live in one house . The floor is kept well cleaned . I was amused with a lady in
San Carlos who , in describing their well - kept houses to Dr . Seemann and
myself , pointed to her own unswept and littered earth floor and said , “ They keep
...
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The women at Santo Domingo are much the same as those found at all the small
provincial towns of Central America . Morality is at a low ebb , and most of them
live as mistresses , not as wives , for which they do not Ch . V . ] MY RESIDENCE
...
The women at Santo Domingo are much the same as those found at all the small
provincial towns of Central America . Morality is at a low ebb , and most of them
live as mistresses , not as wives , for which they do not Ch . V . ] MY RESIDENCE
...
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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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