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 Forms |
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Page 5
Notwithstanding, however, its apparent disadvantages, and that for nine months
of the year it is subject to heavy tropical rains, it is comparatively healthy, and
freer from fever than many places that appear at first sight better situated. Much is
...
Notwithstanding, however, its apparent disadvantages, and that for nine months
of the year it is subject to heavy tropical rains, it is comparatively healthy, and
freer from fever than many places that appear at first sight better situated. Much is
...
Page 14
Sleep for me was impossible, and to add to the discomfort, at midnight the rain
commenced to come down in torrents. We had an old tarpaulin with us, Ch. II.]
POAT JOURNEY UP THE SAN JUAN. 15 but 14 THE NATURALIST IN
NICARAGUA.
Sleep for me was impossible, and to add to the discomfort, at midnight the rain
commenced to come down in torrents. We had an old tarpaulin with us, Ch. II.]
POAT JOURNEY UP THE SAN JUAN. 15 but 14 THE NATURALIST IN
NICARAGUA.
Page 15
As the day broke the rain ceased, the mists cleared away, Our spirits revived, and
we forgot our discomforts of the night in admiration of the beauties of the river.
The banks were hidden by a curtain of creeping and twining plants, many of
which ...
As the day broke the rain ceased, the mists cleared away, Our spirits revived, and
we forgot our discomforts of the night in admiration of the beauties of the river.
The banks were hidden by a curtain of creeping and twining plants, many of
which ...
Page 35
35 Some of the black Congo monkeys (Mycetes palliatus) which at times,
especially before rain and at nightfall, make a fearful howling, though not so loud
as the Brazilian species. Screaming macaws, in their gorgeous livery of blue,
yellow, ...
35 Some of the black Congo monkeys (Mycetes palliatus) which at times,
especially before rain and at nightfall, make a fearful howling, though not so loud
as the Brazilian species. Screaming macaws, in their gorgeous livery of blue,
yellow, ...
Page 58
... a flash of light. Unlike the plains and savannahs we crossed yesterday, where
the ground was parched up in the dry season, the Atlantic forest, bathed in the
rains distilled from the north-east trades, is ever verdant. Perennial moisture Ch.
IV.
... a flash of light. Unlike the plains and savannahs we crossed yesterday, where
the ground was parched up in the dry season, the Atlantic forest, bathed in the
rains distilled from the north-east trades, is ever verdant. Perennial moisture Ch.
IV.
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| Title | 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 Forms |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 okt. 2017 |
| Length | 403 pages |
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