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 xiii
Concordia—Jinotega–Indian Habits retained by the People—Indian Names of
Towns—Security of Travellers in Nicaragua–Native Flour-milk—Uncomfortable
Lodgings—Tierrabona—Dust Whirlwind—Initial form of a Cyclone—The origin of
...
Concordia—Jinotega–Indian Habits retained by the People—Indian Names of
Towns—Security of Travellers in Nicaragua–Native Flour-milk—Uncomfortable
Lodgings—Tierrabona—Dust Whirlwind—Initial form of a Cyclone—The origin of
...
Page 55
... the western side of Central America, and through Peru to Chili, it was, and still
is, the main sustenance of the Indians. The people that cultivated it were all more
or less advanced in civilization; they were settled in towns; their traders travelled
...
... the western side of Central America, and through Peru to Chili, it was, and still
is, the main sustenance of the Indians. The people that cultivated it were all more
or less advanced in civilization; they were settled in towns; their traders travelled
...
Page 56
When travelling, I preferred them myself to bread made from wheaten flour. When
well made and eaten warm, they are very palatable. There are a few small sugar
plantations near Pital. The juice is pressed out of the canes by rude wooden ...
When travelling, I preferred them myself to bread made from wheaten flour. When
well made and eaten warm, they are very palatable. There are a few small sugar
plantations near Pital. The juice is pressed out of the canes by rude wooden ...
Page 71
Nearly all travellers in tropical America have described the ravages of the leaf-
cutting ants (CEeodoma); their crowded, well-worn paths through the forests,
their ceaseless pertinacity in the spoliation of the trees—more particularly of ...
Nearly all travellers in tropical America have described the ravages of the leaf-
cutting ants (CEeodoma); their crowded, well-worn paths through the forests,
their ceaseless pertinacity in the spoliation of the trees—more particularly of ...
Page 72
After travelling for some hundreds of yards, often for more than half a mile, the
formicarium is reached. It consists of low, wide mounds of brown, clayey-looking
earth, above and immediately around which the bushes have been killed by their
...
After travelling for some hundreds of yards, often for more than half a mile, the
formicarium is reached. It consists of low, wide mounds of brown, clayey-looking
earth, above and immediately around which the bushes have been killed by their
...
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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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