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... some birds - Comoapa - A native doctor - Vultures - Flight of birds that soar -
Natives live from generation to generation on the same spot - Do not give
distinctive names to the rivers — Caribs barter guns and iron pots for dogs — The
hairless ...
... some birds - Comoapa - A native doctor - Vultures - Flight of birds that soar -
Natives live from generation to generation on the same spot - Do not give
distinctive names to the rivers — Caribs barter guns and iron pots for dogs — The
hairless ...
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... for the natives of Nicaragua , and of parts much nearer home , are fond of
giving fanciful explanations of the names of places and things : thus , I have been
assured by an intelligent and educated Nicaraguan , that Guatemala was so
called ...
... for the natives of Nicaragua , and of parts much nearer home , are fond of
giving fanciful explanations of the names of places and things : thus , I have been
assured by an intelligent and educated Nicaraguan , that Guatemala was so
called ...
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The last named is a native of Mexico ; it is a climbing plant with succulent stems
and vine - like leaves , and grows with great rapidity . The fruit , of which it ... Next
to maize , plantains and bananas form the principal sustenance of the natives .
The last named is a native of Mexico ; it is a climbing plant with succulent stems
and vine - like leaves , and grows with great rapidity . The fruit , of which it ... Next
to maize , plantains and bananas form the principal sustenance of the natives .
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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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