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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Page xiii
... Travellers in Nicaragua - Native Flour - milk - Uncomfortable Lodgings - Tierrabona - Dust Whirl- wind - Initial form of a Cyclone - The origin of Cyclones • PAGE 275 292 CHAPTER XVII . Cattle - raising - Don Filiberto Trano's new House ...
... Travellers in Nicaragua - Native Flour - milk - Uncomfortable Lodgings - Tierrabona - Dust Whirl- wind - Initial form of a Cyclone - The origin of Cyclones • PAGE 275 292 CHAPTER XVII . Cattle - raising - Don Filiberto Trano's new House ...
Page 55
... travelled from one country to another with their wares ; they were of a docile and tractable dis- position , easily frightened into submission . It is likely that these maize - eating peoples belonged to closely affi- liated races . In ...
... travelled from one country to another with their wares ; they were of a docile and tractable dis- position , easily frightened into submission . It is likely that these maize - eating peoples belonged to closely affi- liated races . In ...
Page 56
... 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 ...
... 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
... travellers in tropical America have described the ravages of the leaf - cutting ants ( Ecodoma ) ; their crowded , well - worn paths through the forests , their ceaseless pertinacity in the spoliation of the trees - more particularly of ...
... travellers in tropical America have described the ravages of the leaf - cutting ants ( Ecodoma ) ; their crowded , well - worn paths through the forests , their ceaseless pertinacity in the spoliation of the trees - more particularly of ...
Page 72
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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