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 637
... creek Iritirí at the mills is only a few yards wide ; it winds about between two lofty walls of forest for some distance , then becomes much broader , and finally joins the Magoary . There are many other ramifica- tions , creeks or ...
... creek Iritirí at the mills is only a few yards wide ; it winds about between two lofty walls of forest for some distance , then becomes much broader , and finally joins the Magoary . There are many other ramifica- tions , creeks or ...
Page 661
... creek , so a lively and polite old man , whom I took to be one of the neighbors , volunteered as guide . We embarked in a little montaria , and paddled some three or four miles up and down the stream . Although I had now become ...
... creek , so a lively and polite old man , whom I took to be one of the neighbors , volunteered as guide . We embarked in a little montaria , and paddled some three or four miles up and down the stream . Although I had now become ...
Page 701
... creek , on whose banks an in- dustrious white settler had located himself . I resolved to pass the rest of the day and night here , and endeavor to obtain a fresh supply of provisions , our stock of salt beef being now nearly exhausted ...
... creek , on whose banks an in- dustrious white settler had located himself . I resolved to pass the rest of the day and night here , and endeavor to obtain a fresh supply of provisions , our stock of salt beef being now nearly exhausted ...
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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