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 678
... half feet in height , which flew up in obtaining a specimen . They were of and alarmed the rest , so that I got only one small size and covered with long fur of a bird out of the tumultuous flocks which uniform gray color . I think the ...
... half feet in height , which flew up in obtaining a specimen . They were of and alarmed the rest , so that I got only one small size and covered with long fur of a bird out of the tumultuous flocks which uniform gray color . I think the ...
Page 697
... half way across the waste . Thence to the bottom of the valley is a long , gentle , grassy slope , bare of trees . The strangely - shaped hills ; the forest at their feet , richly varied with palms ; the bay of Mapirí on the right ...
... half way across the waste . Thence to the bottom of the valley is a long , gentle , grassy slope , bare of trees . The strangely - shaped hills ; the forest at their feet , richly varied with palms ; the bay of Mapirí on the right ...
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... half a mile through a Ega : a magnificent . sheet of water , five miles magnificent bed of Victoria water - lilies , the broad - the expanded portion of the Teffé . It flower - buds of which were just beginning to is quite clear of ...
... half a mile through a Ega : a magnificent . sheet of water , five miles magnificent bed of Victoria water - lilies , the broad - the expanded portion of the Teffé . It flower - buds of which were just beginning to is quite clear of ...
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Naturalist on the River Amazons, a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2007 |
The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2014 |
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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