The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of TravelJ. Fitzgerald, 1880 - 150 pages |
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Page 632
... Tupí language , Jacitára . These have slender , thickly - spined , and flexuous stems , which twine about the taller trees from one to the other , and grow to an incredible length . The leaves , which have the ordinary pinnate shape ...
... Tupí language , Jacitára . These have slender , thickly - spined , and flexuous stems , which twine about the taller trees from one to the other , and grow to an incredible length . The leaves , which have the ordinary pinnate shape ...
Page 677
... Tupí stock than the Mauhes . Flocks of white gulls were flying overhead , Senhor Lima told me , what I afterward uttering their well - known cry , and sand- found to be correct , that there were scarcely pipers coursed along the edge of ...
... Tupí stock than the Mauhes . Flocks of white gulls were flying overhead , Senhor Lima told me , what I afterward uttering their well - known cry , and sand- found to be correct , that there were scarcely pipers coursed along the edge of ...
Page 725
... Tupí is spoken with little corruption along the banks of the main Amazons for a distance of 2500 miles . The purity of Tupí is kept up by frequent communication among the natives , from one end to the other of the main river ; how ...
... Tupí is spoken with little corruption along the banks of the main Amazons for a distance of 2500 miles . The purity of Tupí is kept up by frequent communication among the natives , from one end to the other of the main river ; how ...
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Naturalist on the River Amazons, a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2007 |
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afterward alligators animal ants appearance ashore banks beautiful birds boat branches Brazilian broad cacao Cafuzo called Cametá campos canoe Cardozo Caripí channel clothed coast color creek distance dry season Ecitons eggs farinha feet fish flocks foliage Fonte Boa forest fruit ground habits hammocks head height inches Indians inhabitants insects interior islands Japurá kind lake land larvæ leaves length live lower main river mameluco mandioca miles monkeys montaria morning mouth Mundurucús natives nearly neighborhood neighboring night o'clock Obydos paddle palms Pará Pará river passed plants Portuguese ramble Rio Negro road rocinha sand sandy Santarem seemed seen Senhor shade shape shore side Solimoens species stream Tabatinga tail Tapajos tion Tocantins Toucans travelling trees tribes trunks Tupí turtles Upper Amazons vegetation vessel Villa Nova village voyage walk wild wind wings woods yards young