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 633
... neighboring city of Maran- ham , 300 miles distant . Once the President ordered the mail steamer to be delayed two days at Pará for the convenience of these visitors . The popularity of the festa is partly owing to the beautiful weather ...
... neighboring city of Maran- ham , 300 miles distant . Once the President ordered the mail steamer to be delayed two days at Pará for the convenience of these visitors . The popularity of the festa is partly owing to the beautiful weather ...
Page 661
... neighboring roots , to extend it under ground . The great amount of moisture and nutriment contained in the atmosphere may also favor these growths . In company with Petzell , a German settler near Caripí , I made many excursions of ...
... neighboring roots , to extend it under ground . The great amount of moisture and nutriment contained in the atmosphere may also favor these growths . In company with Petzell , a German settler near Caripí , I made many excursions of ...
Page 756
... neighboring Ygapó forests , which are then flooded and cold . The birds have now be come exceedingly tame , and the troops travel with heavy laborious flight from bough to bough among the lower trees . They thus become an easy prey to ...
... neighboring Ygapó forests , which are then flooded and cold . The birds have now be come exceedingly tame , and the troops travel with heavy laborious flight from bough to bough among the lower trees . They thus become an easy prey to ...
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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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