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Page 42
Much of the land around is very fertile ; but little of it is cultivated , as the people
are indolent , and content if they make a bare livelihood . We left Acoyapo about
three o ' clock : our road lay up the river , which we crossed three times .
Excepting ...
Much of the land around is very fertile ; but little of it is cultivated , as the people
are indolent , and content if they make a bare livelihood . We left Acoyapo about
three o ' clock : our road lay up the river , which we crossed three times .
Excepting ...
Page 97
The largest species at Santo Domingo was the Rhamphastus tocard , Vieill . ,
twenty - three inches in length , of which one - fourth was taken up by the long bill
and another fourth by the tail ; above , all black , excepting the tailcoverts , which
...
The largest species at Santo Domingo was the Rhamphastus tocard , Vieill . ,
twenty - three inches in length , of which one - fourth was taken up by the long bill
and another fourth by the tail ; above , all black , excepting the tailcoverts , which
...
Page 261
The highest ambition of every one seems to be to keep a shop , excepting when
the revolutionary fever breaks out about every seven or eight years , when , for a
few months , business is at a stand - still , and the population is divided into two ...
The highest ambition of every one seems to be to keep a shop , excepting when
the revolutionary fever breaks out about every seven or eight years , when , for a
few months , business is at a stand - still , and the population is divided into two ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 561. number of Everyman's library 561. number of Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Thys. Travel & topography 561. number of Everyman's library: Travel and topography |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1928 |
| Original from | University of Texas |
| Digitized | 6 veeb. 2008 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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