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 708
... course , and soon after penetrated a dense swampy thicket , where of course I did not choose to follow him . us ) . I saw a pair one day in the forest mov- ing slowly along the branches of a lofty tree , and shot one of them ; the next ...
... course , and soon after penetrated a dense swampy thicket , where of course I did not choose to follow him . us ) . I saw a pair one day in the forest mov- ing slowly along the branches of a lofty tree , and shot one of them ; the next ...
Page 709
... course was southerly and south - easterly . This morning ( August 21st ) we arrived at the Indian settlement , the first house of which lies about thirty - one miles above the sitio of John Aracú . The river at this place is from sixty ...
... course was southerly and south - easterly . This morning ( August 21st ) we arrived at the Indian settlement , the first house of which lies about thirty - one miles above the sitio of John Aracú . The river at this place is from sixty ...
Page 730
... course of a few days . It appears that they had been arrested , in their migration toward the interior pools of the forest , by the sudden drying up of the water - courses , and so had become easy prey . Thus the Ega year is divided ...
... course of a few days . It appears that they had been arrested , in their migration toward the interior pools of the forest , by the sudden drying up of the water - courses , and so had become easy prey . Thus the Ega year is divided ...
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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 larv¿ 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