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 655
... body , but the legs expanded seven inches , and the entire body and legs were covered with coarse gray and reddish hairs . I was attracted by a move- ment of the monster on a tree - trunk ; it was close beneath a deep crevice in the ...
... body , but the legs expanded seven inches , and the entire body and legs were covered with coarse gray and reddish hairs . I was attracted by a move- ment of the monster on a tree - trunk ; it was close beneath a deep crevice in the ...
Page 660
... body there is a brush of long hair - scales resembling feathers , which being expanded , looks very much like a bird's tail . But , of course , all these points of resemblance are merely superficial . The negroes and Indians tried to ...
... body there is a brush of long hair - scales resembling feathers , which being expanded , looks very much like a bird's tail . But , of course , all these points of resemblance are merely superficial . The negroes and Indians tried to ...
Page 719
... body , and smooth , thick , lead - col- ored skin , reminded me of those Egyptian tombs which are made of dark , smooth stone , and shaped to the human figure . Notwithstanding the hard fare , the confine- ment of the canoe , the trying ...
... body , and smooth , thick , lead - col- ored skin , reminded me of those Egyptian tombs which are made of dark , smooth stone , and shaped to the human figure . Notwithstanding the hard fare , the confine- ment of the canoe , the trying ...
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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