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Page 52
... live as mistresses , not as wives , for which they do not seem to suffer in the estimation of their neighbours . This is greatly due in Nicaragua , as it is throughout Central and South America , to the profligate lives led by the ...
... live as mistresses , not as wives , for which they do not seem to suffer in the estimation of their neighbours . This is greatly due in Nicaragua , as it is throughout Central and South America , to the profligate lives led by the ...
Page 145
... live in bogs , which supports the infer- ence that plants growing in such situations have some especial need to obtain nutriment , which they cannot draw from the decaying vegetation on which they live . Possibly they obtain the salts ...
... live in bogs , which supports the infer- ence that plants growing in such situations have some especial need to obtain nutriment , which they cannot draw from the decaying vegetation on which they live . Possibly they obtain the salts ...
Page 189
... live in abundance . But they have been born and bred where they live , and knowing how strong is the force of custom and how attached the Indians are to their homes , I do not wonder that they stay from generation to generation on this ...
... live in abundance . But they have been born and bred where they live , and knowing how strong is the force of custom and how attached the Indians are to their homes , I do not wonder that they stay from generation to generation on this ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
Commence journey up San Juan riverPalms and wild canes | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
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