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... growing out of the shoal water - weedy banks filled up the once spacious harbour , and cattle waded amongst the long grass , where within the last twenty years a frigate has lain at anchor . Wading and aquatic birds were abundant in the ...
... growing out of the shoal water - weedy banks filled up the once spacious harbour , and cattle waded amongst the long grass , where within the last twenty years a frigate has lain at anchor . Wading and aquatic birds were abundant in the ...
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... grow spiny cactuses , low leathery- leaved trees , slender , spiny palms , with plum - like fruit , prickly acacias ... growing on the trunk and branches , not amongst the leaves . The outside of the fruit is a hard thin shell , packed ...
... grow spiny cactuses , low leathery- leaved trees , slender , spiny palms , with plum - like fruit , prickly acacias ... growing on the trunk and branches , not amongst the leaves . The outside of the fruit is a hard thin shell , packed ...
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... growing really wild in Central America : and I have sometimes thought that even in the short time since the lime was first intro- duced , about three hundred years ago , a wild variety may have arisen , less subject to the attacks of ...
... growing really wild in Central America : and I have sometimes thought that even in the short time since the lime was first intro- duced , about three hundred years ago , a wild variety may have arisen , less subject to the attacks of ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
Commence journey up San Juan riverPalms and wild canes | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
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