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 653
... called in Portu- guese cabo , was a mameluco , named Manoel , a quiet , good humored person , who treated me with the most unaffected civility during the three days ' journey . The pilot was also a mameluco , named John Mendez , a hand ...
... called in Portu- guese cabo , was a mameluco , named Manoel , a quiet , good humored person , who treated me with the most unaffected civility during the three days ' journey . The pilot was also a mameluco , named John Mendez , a hand ...
Page 700
... called Burarí . As in all the semi - civil- ized villages , where the original orderly and industrious habits of the Indian have been Jost without anything being learned from the whites to make amends , the inhabitants live in the ...
... called Burarí . As in all the semi - civil- ized villages , where the original orderly and industrious habits of the Indian have been Jost without anything being learned from the whites to make amends , the inhabitants live in the ...
Page 714
... called at André's sitio we should not have been able to have kept Ricardo from running away at the first landing - place . He was a lively , restless lad , and although im- pudent and troublesome at first , had made a very good servant ...
... called at André's sitio we should not have been able to have kept Ricardo from running away at the first landing - place . He was a lively , restless lad , and although im- pudent and troublesome at first , had made a very good servant ...
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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