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... mountain road - A poor lodg- ing - The rock of Cuapo - The use of large beaks in 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 ...
... mountain road - A poor lodg- ing - The rock of Cuapo - The use of large beaks in 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 ...
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... mountain regions of Europe cannot , if they would , take up land in the fertile lowlands , as they are already occupied , but in the central provinces of Nicaragua the greater part of the land is unappropriated , and these people might ...
... mountain regions of Europe cannot , if they would , take up land in the fertile lowlands , as they are already occupied , but in the central provinces of Nicaragua the greater part of the land is unappropriated , and these people might ...
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... mountains high at the poles and along the chain of the Andes all through tropical America melted away and ran down ... mountain - chains relieved of the ice of thousands and tens of thousands of years , but that there must have been an ...
... mountains high at the poles and along the chain of the Andes all through tropical America melted away and ran down ... mountain - chains relieved of the ice of thousands and tens of thousands of years , but that there must have been an ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
Commence journey up San Juan riverPalms and wild canes | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
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