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Page 42
Before us were spread out wellgrassed savannahs , thinly timbered , excepting
where dark winding lines of trees or light green thickets of bamboos marked the
course of rivers or mountain brooks . Here and there were dotted thatched huts ,
in ...
Before us were spread out wellgrassed savannahs , thinly timbered , excepting
where dark winding lines of trees or light green thickets of bamboos marked the
course of rivers or mountain brooks . Here and there were dotted thatched huts ,
in ...
Page 127
As I rode back over the savannahs to Juigalpa , the nearly vertical rays of the sun
were reflected from the dry , hot , sandy soil . Not a sound was now heard from
the numerous birds . The shrill cicada still piped its never - ending treble . No
wind ...
As I rode back over the savannahs to Juigalpa , the nearly vertical rays of the sun
were reflected from the dry , hot , sandy soil . Not a sound was now heard from
the numerous birds . The shrill cicada still piped its never - ending treble . No
wind ...
Page 146
The surface of the ground is not level on the savannahs , but consists of hill and
dale , just as in the forest . Altogether the conditions seemed to be exactly the
same , and it appeared a difficult matter to account for the fact that the forest
should ...
The surface of the ground is not level on the savannahs , but consists of hill and
dale , just as in the forest . Altogether the conditions seemed to be exactly the
same , and it appeared a difficult matter to account for the fact that the forest
should ...
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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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