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 627
... color from the surrounding soil , which were thrown up in the plantations and woods . Some of them were very extensive , being forty yards in circumference , but not more than two feet in height . We soon ascertained that these were the ...
... color from the surrounding soil , which were thrown up in the plantations and woods . Some of them were very extensive , being forty yards in circumference , but not more than two feet in height . We soon ascertained that these were the ...
Page 751
... color of its river in 1859 , we had with us a tame adult face changed to a duller hue . This color , Uakarí , which was allowed to ramble about in health , is spread over the features up to the vessel , a large schooner . When we the ...
... color of its river in 1859 , we had with us a tame adult face changed to a duller hue . This color , Uakarí , which was allowed to ramble about in health , is spread over the features up to the vessel , a large schooner . When we the ...
Page 757
... color , curled up at the ends , and resembling shavings of steel or ebony wood , the curly crest being arranged on the crown in the form of a wig . Mr. Wallace and I first met with this species on ascending the Amazons , at the mouth of ...
... color , curled up at the ends , and resembling shavings of steel or ebony wood , the curly crest being arranged on the crown in the form of a wig . Mr. Wallace and I first met with this species on ascending the Amazons , at the mouth of ...
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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