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 643
... nearly in two with a large knife , as it was making its way down the sandy street . Sometimes the native hunters capture boa- constrictors alive in the forest near the city . We bought one which had been taken in this way , and kept it ...
... nearly in two with a large knife , as it was making its way down the sandy street . Sometimes the native hunters capture boa- constrictors alive in the forest near the city . We bought one which had been taken in this way , and kept it ...
Page 702
... nearly free from diseases arising from mala- ria . The cause lies , without doubt , in the slack currents of the tributaries in the dry season , and the absence of the cooling Ama zonian trade - wind , which purifies the air along the ...
... nearly free from diseases arising from mala- ria . The cause lies , without doubt , in the slack currents of the tributaries in the dry season , and the absence of the cooling Ama zonian trade - wind , which purifies the air along the ...
Page 767
... nearly all mamelucos , and were a loose- living , rustic , plain - spoken , and ignorant set of people . There was no priest or school master within 150 miles , and had not been I left Fonte Boa , for Ega , on the 25th of any for many ...
... nearly all mamelucos , and were a loose- living , rustic , plain - spoken , and ignorant set of people . There was no priest or school master within 150 miles , and had not been I left Fonte Boa , for Ega , on the 25th of any for many ...
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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