 | Henry Walter Bates - 1863 - 482 lehte
...year round. It is scarcely exaggerating to say that the waters of the Solimoens are as wellstocked with large alligators in the dry season, as a ditch...tadpoles. During a journey of five days which I once made iu the Upper Amazons steamer, in November, alligators were seen along the coast almost every step of... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - 1863 - 452 lehte
...till the rainy season returns. On the Upper Amazons, where the dry season is never excessive, it has not this habit, but is lively all the year round....exaggerating to say that the waters of the Solimoens are as wellstocked with large alligators in the dry season, as a ditch in England is in summer with tadpoles.... | |
 | 1866 - 570 lehte
...the rainy season returns. On the Upper Amazons, •where the dry season is never excessive, it has not this habit, but is lively all the year round....in summer with tadpoles. During a journey of five clays which I once-made in the Upper Amazons steamer, in November, alligators were seen along the coast... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 358 lehte
...mud, and sleeps till the rainy season returns. " It is scarcely exaggerating to say (writes Bates) that the waters of the Solimoens are as well stocked...as a ditch in England is in summer with tadpoles." There are three or four species in the Amazon. The largest, the Jacare-uassii of the natives, attains... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 362 lehte
...mud, and sleeps till the rainy season returns. " It is scarcely exaggerating to say (writes Bates) that the waters of the Solimoens are as well stocked...as a ditch in England is in summer with tadpoles." There are three or four species in the Amazon. The largest, the Jacare"-uassu of the natives, attains... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 372 lehte
...mud, and sleeps till the rainy season returns. " It is scarcely exaggerating to say (writes Bates) that the waters of the Solimoens are as well stocked...as a ditch in England is in summer with tadpoles." There are three or four species in the Amazon. The largest, the Jacare-uassu of the natives, attains... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 378 lehte
...mud, and sleeps till the rainy season returns. " It is scarcely exaggerating to say (writes Bates) that the waters of the Solimoens are as well stocked...as a ditch in England is in summer with tadpoles." There are three or four species in the Amazon. The largest, the Jacare-uassu of the natives, attains... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 lehte
...the fine months, the alligator buries itself in the mud, and sleeps till the rainy season returns. It is scarcely exaggerating to say that the waters...with large alligators in the dry season as a ditch with us is with tadpoles in the summer. There are three or four species in the Amazon. The largest,... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1872 - 780 lehte
...in the mad, and sleeps till the rainy season returns. It is scarcely exaggerating to say that tlie waters of the Solimoens are as well stocked with large alligators in the dry season as a ditch with us is with tadpoles in the summer. There are three or four species in the Amazon. The largest,... | |
 | James Orton - 1875 - 672 lehte
...mud, and sleeps till the rainy season returns. " It is scarcely exaggerating to say (writes Bates) that the waters of the Solimoens are as well stocked...as a ditch in England is in summer with tadpoles." There are three or four species in the Amazon. The largest, the Jacar^-uassu of the natives, attains... | |
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It is scarcely exaggerating to say that the waters of the Solimoens are as- well stocked with large alligators, in the dry season, as a ditch in England is in summer with tadpoles. 
