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 678
... banks of the river ; by a dry water - course . About a furlong in- but the whole does not contain more than land this opened on a broad placid pool , 4000 inhabitants . More than half of these whose banks , clothed with grass of the ...
... banks of the river ; by a dry water - course . About a furlong in- but the whole does not contain more than land this opened on a broad placid pool , 4000 inhabitants . More than half of these whose banks , clothed with grass of the ...
Page 693
... banks . The little miners excavate with their fore feet , which are strongly built and fur- nished with a fringe of ... banks of the Upper Ama- zons , sometimes excavates its mine solitarily on sand banks recently laid bare in the mid ...
... banks . The little miners excavate with their fore feet , which are strongly built and fur- nished with a fringe of ... banks of the Upper Ama- zons , sometimes excavates its mine solitarily on sand banks recently laid bare in the mid ...
Page 696
... banks of the Irurá , a stream which rises among the hills already spoken of , and running through a broad valley , wooded along the margins of the water- courses , falls into the Tapajos at the head of the bay of Mapirí . All beyond ...
... banks of the Irurá , a stream which rises among the hills already spoken of , and running through a broad valley , wooded along the margins of the water- courses , falls into the Tapajos at the head of the bay of Mapirí . All beyond ...
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Naturalist on the River Amazons, a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2007 |
The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2014 |
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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