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Morality is at a low ebb , and most of them live as mistresses , not as wives , for
which they do not seem to suffer in the ... This is greatly due in Nicaragua , as it is
throughout Central and South America , to the profligate lives led by the priests ...
Morality is at a low ebb , and most of them live as mistresses , not as wives , for
which they do not seem to suffer in the ... This is greatly due in Nicaragua , as it is
throughout Central and South America , to the profligate lives led by the priests ...
Page 134
He perhaps plants a small patch of maize once a year , and grows a few
plantains , content to live on the plainest fare , and in the rudest style , so that he
may indulge in indolence and sloth . So he vegetates and drops into his grave ,
and in a ...
He perhaps plants a small patch of maize once a year , and grows a few
plantains , content to live on the plainest fare , and in the rudest style , so that he
may indulge in indolence and sloth . So he vegetates and drops into his grave ,
and in a ...
Page 164
to live amongst hair , their limbs being constructed for clinging to it . They deposit
their nits or eggs amongst it , fastening them securely to the bases of the hairs .
Although the pediculi are almost unknown to the middle and upper classes of ...
to live amongst hair , their limbs being constructed for clinging to it . They deposit
their nits or eggs amongst it , fastening them securely to the bases of the hairs .
Although the pediculi are almost unknown to the middle and upper classes of ...
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| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 561. number of Everyman's library Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science Everyman's library. Travel and topography 561. number of Everyman's library: Science |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Contributor | Thomas Belt |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 7 jaan. 2010 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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