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
... feet and snouts around the roots of herbage , search- ing for insect larvæ . On the slightest alarm they will scamper off ; their tails cocked up in the air as they waddled awkwardly away , evi- dently an incumbrance to them in their ...
... feet and snouts around the roots of herbage , search- ing for insect larvæ . On the slightest alarm they will scamper off ; their tails cocked up in the air as they waddled awkwardly away , evi- dently an incumbrance to them in their ...
Page 706
... feet from the days . We had together several long and cabin door . I could find no explanation of successful rambles along a narrow pathway the circumstance , and , my men being all which extended several miles into the forest . ashore ...
... feet from the days . We had together several long and cabin door . I could find no explanation of successful rambles along a narrow pathway the circumstance , and , my men being all which extended several miles into the forest . ashore ...
Page 730
... feet , but it is , in some years , much more extensive , laying the large sand islands under water before the turtle - eggs are hatched . In one year , while I resided at Ega , this second annual inundation reached to within ten feet of ...
... feet , but it is , in some years , much more extensive , laying the large sand islands under water before the turtle - eggs are hatched . In one year , while I resided at Ega , this second annual inundation reached to within ten feet 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