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... river - Palms and wild canes- Plantations The Colorado river - Proposed improvement of the river - Progress of the Delta - Mosquitoes - Disagree- able night - Fine morning - Vegetation of the banks- Seripiqui river - Mot - mots ...
... river - Palms and wild canes- Plantations The Colorado river - Proposed improvement of the river - Progress of the Delta - Mosquitoes - Disagree- able night - Fine morning - Vegetation of the banks- Seripiqui river - Mot - mots ...
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... river - Proposed improvement of the river- Progress of the delta - Mosquitoes - Disagreeable night - Fine morning - Vegetation of the banks - Seripiqui river - Mot - mots- Foraging ants - Their method of hunting - Ant - thrushes - They ...
... river - Proposed improvement of the river- Progress of the delta - Mosquitoes - Disagreeable night - Fine morning - Vegetation of the banks - Seripiqui river - Mot - mots- Foraging ants - Their method of hunting - Ant - thrushes - They ...
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... river , where it issues from the great lake of Nicaragua , about one hundred and twenty miles from Greytown . The mean level of the waters of the lake , according to the survey of Colonel O. W. Childs , in 1851 , is 107 feet , so that ...
... river , where it issues from the great lake of Nicaragua , about one hundred and twenty miles from Greytown . The mean level of the waters of the lake , according to the survey of Colonel O. W. Childs , in 1851 , is 107 feet , so that ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
Commence journey up San Juan riverPalms and wild canes | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
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