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 645
... kind of sub- estuary within the grand estuary of Pará . It is nearly four miles broad . The left bank , along which we were now sailing , was beau- tiful in the extreme ; not an inch of soil was to be seen ; the water frontage presented ...
... kind of sub- estuary within the grand estuary of Pará . It is nearly four miles broad . The left bank , along which we were now sailing , was beau- tiful in the extreme ; not an inch of soil was to be seen ; the water frontage presented ...
Page 690
... kind were almost impossible to be ob an accretion of low alluvial land , which forms a kind of delta on the western side ; fifteen miles further up the river is seen at its full width of ten or a dozen miles , and the magnificent hilly ...
... kind were almost impossible to be ob an accretion of low alluvial land , which forms a kind of delta on the western side ; fifteen miles further up the river is seen at its full width of ten or a dozen miles , and the magnificent hilly ...
Page 713
... kind called Sarapó came wriggling along , one by one , with a slow movement . We caught with hook and line , baited with pieces of banana , several Curi- matá ( Anodus Amazonum ) a most delicious fish , which , next to the Tucunaré and ...
... kind called Sarapó came wriggling along , one by one , with a slow movement . We caught with hook and line , baited with pieces of banana , several Curi- matá ( Anodus Amazonum ) a most delicious fish , which , next to the Tucunaré and ...
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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