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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... when readers receive my work I shall probably have turned my face
homewards again , and for weeks be speeding across the frozen Siberian
steppes , wrapped in furs , listening to the sleigh bells , and wondering how my
book has sped .
... when readers receive my work I shall probably have turned my face
homewards again , and for weeks be speeding across the frozen Siberian
steppes , wrapped in furs , listening to the sleigh bells , and wondering how my
book has sped .
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... The Inhabitants - Mixed Races - Negroes and Indians comparedWomen -
Establishment of the Chontales Gold Mining Company - My House and Garden -
Fruits - Plantains and Bananas : probably not indigenous to America :
propagated ...
... The Inhabitants - Mixed Races - Negroes and Indians comparedWomen -
Establishment of the Chontales Gold Mining Company - My House and Garden -
Fruits - Plantains and Bananas : probably not indigenous to America :
propagated ...
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The bright colours of the male must make it very conspicuous to birds of prey ,
and , probably in consequence , it is not nearly so bold as the obscurelycoloured
females . When a clear space in the brushwood is to be crossed , such as a road
...
The bright colours of the male must make it very conspicuous to birds of prey ,
and , probably in consequence , it is not nearly so bold as the obscurelycoloured
females . When a clear space in the brushwood is to be crossed , such as a road
...
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Probably it is an invention to account for the animals lying with their mouths open
; as in all half - civilised countries I have visited I have found that the natives
seldom admit they do not know the reason of anything , but will invent an ...
Probably it is an invention to account for the animals lying with their mouths open
; as in all half - civilised countries I have visited I have found that the natives
seldom admit they do not know the reason of anything , but will invent an ...
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... or milking aphides , leaf - hoppers , or scale - insects that it found unattended
by other ants . On the approach of another , though of a much smaller species , it
would immediately run away . Probably this cowardly and unantly disposition has
...
... or milking aphides , leaf - hoppers , or scale - insects that it found unattended
by other ants . On the approach of another , though of a much smaller species , it
would immediately run away . Probably this cowardly and unantly disposition has
...
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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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