The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests. With Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsJ. Murray, 1874 - 403 pages |
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... hundred others , that make every big tree an aërial botanical garden . Great arums are perched on . the forks and send down roots like cords to the ground , whilst lianas run from tree to tree or hang in loops and folds like the ...
... hundred others , that make every big tree an aërial botanical garden . Great arums are perched on . the forks and send down roots like cords to the ground , whilst lianas run from tree to tree or hang in loops and folds like the ...
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... hundred yards wide . Distant as we were from the shores , we were not too far for the mosquitoes , which came off in myriads to the banquet upon our blood . Sleep for me was impossible , and to add to the discomfort , at midnight the ...
... hundred yards wide . Distant as we were from the shores , we were not too far for the mosquitoes , which came off in myriads to the banquet upon our blood . Sleep for me was impossible , and to add to the discomfort , at midnight the ...
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... hundred yards without getting to the end . They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees , and sometimes underneath large fallen trunks that offer suitable hollows . A nest that I came across in the latter situation was open at ...
... hundred yards without getting to the end . They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees , and sometimes underneath large fallen trunks that offer suitable hollows . A nest that I came across in the latter situation was open at ...
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... hundred . They are said to assist each other against the attacks of the jaguar , but that wary animal is too in- telligent for them . He sits quietly upon a branch of a tree until the Wari come underneath ; then jumping down . kills one ...
... hundred . They are said to assist each other against the attacks of the jaguar , but that wary animal is too in- telligent for them . He sits quietly upon a branch of a tree until the Wari come underneath ; then jumping down . kills one ...
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... 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 the river falls on an average a little less than one foot per mile ...
... 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 the river falls on an average a little less than one foot per mile ...
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