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
... morning , we found ourselves gliding upward with the tide , along the Bahia or Bay , as it is called , of Goajará . This is a broad channel lying between the mainland and a line of islands which extend some distance beyond the city ...
... morning , we found ourselves gliding upward with the tide , along the Bahia or Bay , as it is called , of Goajará . This is a broad channel lying between the mainland and a line of islands which extend some distance beyond the city ...
Page 681
... morning . a We visited all the houses one after the other . One of them was situated in a charm- ing spot , with a broad sandy beach before it , at the entrance to the Paraná - mirím do Mu- cámbo , a channel leading to an interior lake ...
... morning . a We visited all the houses one after the other . One of them was situated in a charm- ing spot , with a broad sandy beach before it , at the entrance to the Paraná - mirím do Mu- cámbo , a channel leading to an interior lake ...
Page 749
... morning I had a ramble along the borders of the jun- gle , and found the tracks very numerous and close together on the sandy soil . We remained in this neighborhood four days , and succeeded in obtaining many hun- dred turtles , but we ...
... morning I had a ramble along the borders of the jun- gle , and found the tracks very numerous and close together on the sandy soil . We remained in this neighborhood four days , and succeeded in obtaining many hun- dred turtles , but we ...
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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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