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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Concordia — Jinotega - Indian Habits retained by the People - Indian Names of
Towns - Security of Travellers in Nicaragua - Native Flour - milk - Uncomfortable
Lodgings — Tierrabona – Dust Whirlwind - Initial form of a Cyclone - The origin of
...
Concordia — Jinotega - Indian Habits retained by the People - Indian Names of
Towns - Security of Travellers in Nicaragua - Native Flour - milk - Uncomfortable
Lodgings — Tierrabona – Dust Whirlwind - Initial form of a Cyclone - The origin of
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... and through Peru to Chili , it was , and still is , the main sustenance of the
Indians . The people that cultivated it were all more or less advanced in
civilization ; they were settled in towns ; their traders travelled from one country to
another ...
... and through Peru to Chili , it was , and still is , the main sustenance of the
Indians . The people that cultivated it were all more or less advanced in
civilization ; they were settled in towns ; their traders travelled from one country to
another ...
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When travelling , I preferred them myself to bread made from wheaten flour .
When well made and eaten warm , they are very palatable . There are a few
small sugar plantations near Pital . The juice is pressed out of the canes by rude
wooden ...
When travelling , I preferred them myself to bread made from wheaten flour .
When well made and eaten warm , they are very palatable . There are a few
small sugar plantations near Pital . The juice is pressed out of the canes by rude
wooden ...
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Nearly all travellers in tropical America have described the ravages of the leaf -
cutting ants ( Ecodoma ) ; their crowded , well - worn paths through the forests ,
their ceaseless pertinacity in the spoliation of the trees — more particularly of ...
Nearly all travellers in tropical America have described the ravages of the leaf -
cutting ants ( Ecodoma ) ; their crowded , well - worn paths through the forests ,
their ceaseless pertinacity in the spoliation of the trees — more particularly of ...
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After travelling for some hundreds of yards , often for more than half a mile , the
formicarium is reached . It consists of low , wide mounds of brown , clayey -
looking earth , above and immediately around which the bushes have been killed
by ...
After travelling for some hundreds of yards , often for more than half a mile , the
formicarium is reached . It consists of low , wide mounds of brown , clayey -
looking earth , above and immediately around which the bushes have been killed
by ...
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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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