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 636
... animal denizens of these forests I have already alluded to . The most intensely arboreal animals in the world are the South American monkeys of the fam- ily Cebidae , many of which have a fifth hand for climbing in their prehensile ...
... animal denizens of these forests I have already alluded to . The most intensely arboreal animals in the world are the South American monkeys of the fam- ily Cebidae , many of which have a fifth hand for climbing in their prehensile ...
Page 719
... animal . The meat was cut into cubical slabs , and each person skewered a dozen or so of these on a long stick . Fires were made , and the spits stuck in the ground and slanted over the flames to roast . A driz zling rain fell all the ...
... animal . The meat was cut into cubical slabs , and each person skewered a dozen or so of these on a long stick . Fires were made , and the spits stuck in the ground and slanted over the flames to roast . A driz zling rain fell all the ...
Page 739
... animal descends with it toward the bottom , leaving the shaft floating on the surface . This being doue , the sportsman paddles in his montaria to the place , and gently draws the animal by the twine , humoring it by giving it the rein ...
... animal descends with it toward the bottom , leaving the shaft floating on the surface . This being doue , the sportsman paddles in his montaria to the place , and gently draws the animal by the twine , humoring it by giving it the rein ...
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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