My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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... RIO NEGRO and 39 320 ( From observations made in the years 1851 1852 by Alfred R. Wallace ) ENLARGED MAP OF THE RIVER UAUPÉS ALFRED R. WALLACE . 1853 . ( From a photograph by Mr. Sims ) NATIVE HOUSE , WOKAN , ARU ISLANDS ( Where I lived ...
... RIO NEGRO and 39 320 ( From observations made in the years 1851 1852 by Alfred R. Wallace ) ENLARGED MAP OF THE RIVER UAUPÉS ALFRED R. WALLACE . 1853 . ( From a photograph by Mr. Sims ) NATIVE HOUSE , WOKAN , ARU ISLANDS ( Where I lived ...
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... Rio Negro , he returned to Para on his way home , where he caught yellow fever , and died in a few days at the early age of twenty - two . He was the only member of our family who had a considerable gift of poesy , and was probably more ...
... Rio Negro , he returned to Para on his way home , where he caught yellow fever , and died in a few days at the early age of twenty - two . He was the only member of our family who had a considerable gift of poesy , and was probably more ...
Page 268
... Rio Negro , " a cheap edition of which is comprised in " The Minerva Library of Famous Books . " In order that no large gap may occur in these memories of my life , I will give here a general outline of my travels , with such incidental ...
... Rio Negro , " a cheap edition of which is comprised in " The Minerva Library of Famous Books . " In order that no large gap may occur in these memories of my life , I will give here a general outline of my travels , with such incidental ...
Page 281
... Rio Negro we found a strange and even now unaccountable poverty both in insects and birds , although there was fine virgin forest within a walk , with roads and paths and fine rocky streams . All seemed barren and lifeless as compared ...
... Rio Negro we found a strange and even now unaccountable poverty both in insects and birds , although there was fine virgin forest within a walk , with roads and paths and fine rocky streams . All seemed barren and lifeless as compared ...
Page 283
... Rio Negro . On the first I went beyond the boundaries of Brazil , and crossed by a road in the forest to one of the tributaries of the Orinoko . Returning thence I visited a village up a small branch of the Rio Negro , where there is an ...
... Rio Negro . On the first I went beyond the boundaries of Brazil , and crossed by a road in the forest to one of the tributaries of the Orinoko . Returning thence I visited a village up a small branch of the Rio Negro , where there is an ...
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