Ballantyne press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

THE

NATURALIST IN NICARAGUA.

Al Tharrative of

A RESIDENCE AT THE GOLD MINES OF CHONTALES;

JOURNEYS IN THE SAVANNAHS AND FORESTS;

WWith Dbservations on Animals and plants in Reference to

the Theory of Evolution of Living Forms.

BY THOMAS BELT, F.G.S.

MINERAL VEINS,

AUTHOR OF
“THE GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA," ETC. ETC.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

“ It was his faith-perhaps is mine-

That life in all its forms is one,
And that its secret conduits run
Unseen, but in unbroken line,
From the great fountain-head divine,
Through man and beast, through grain and grass."

LONGFELLOW.

With Map and Fllustrations.

LONDON:
EDWARD BUMPUS, 5 & 6 HOLBORN BARS, E.C.

1888.
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