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 657
... obtained quite a reputa tion for the number and beauty of the birds and insects found there . I therefore applied for and obtained permission to spend two or three months at the place . The distance from Pará was about 23 miles , round ...
... obtained quite a reputa tion for the number and beauty of the birds and insects found there . I therefore applied for and obtained permission to spend two or three months at the place . The distance from Pará was about 23 miles , round ...
Page 696
... obtained willing to undertake it . Besides , there were reports of a settlement of fierce runaway negroes on the Serra de Mururarú , and it was considered unsafe to go far in that direction , except with a large armed party . I visited ...
... obtained willing to undertake it . Besides , there were reports of a settlement of fierce runaway negroes on the Serra de Mururarú , and it was considered unsafe to go far in that direction , except with a large armed party . I visited ...
Page 751
... obtained alive by on a chair , climbed my legs and nestled in shooting them with the blow - pipe and arrow my lap , turning round and looking up with tipped with diluted Urarí poison . They run the usual monkey's grin , after it had ...
... obtained alive by on a chair , climbed my legs and nestled in shooting them with the blow - pipe and arrow my lap , turning round and looking up with tipped with diluted Urarí poison . They run the usual monkey's grin , after it had ...
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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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