The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1911 - 306 pages |
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Page 27
... continued our voyage up the river , and passed the mouth of the San Carlos , another large stream running down from the interior of Costa Rica . Soon after we heard some wild pigs ( Dicoteles tajaçu ) or Wari , as they are called by the ...
... continued our voyage up the river , and passed the mouth of the San Carlos , another large stream running down from the interior of Costa Rica . Soon after we heard some wild pigs ( Dicoteles tajaçu ) or Wari , as they are called by the ...
Page 167
... continued our journey , and crossed two rivers running to the eastward ; then ascended a high and rocky range , along the top of which THE the path lay . We took this mountain - path to avoid some very bad swamps that we were told we ...
... continued our journey , and crossed two rivers running to the eastward ; then ascended a high and rocky range , along the top of which THE the path lay . We took this mountain - path to avoid some very bad swamps that we were told we ...
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... continued for three days , and was heard six hundred and thirty miles away on the llanos of Caracas . It has been so graphically narrated by Canon Kingsley that I shall once more quote from his eloquent pages . " That single explosion ...
... continued for three days , and was heard six hundred and thirty miles away on the llanos of Caracas . It has been so graphically narrated by Canon Kingsley that I shall once more quote from his eloquent pages . " That single explosion ...
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The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of ... Thomas Belt No preview available - 2018 |
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