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 648
... once with two me his library . I was rather surprised to see men , killed an ox in our honor , and treated a number of well - thumbed Latin classics , us altogether with great consideration . We Virgil , Terence , Cicero's Epistles ...
... once with two me his library . I was rather surprised to see men , killed an ox in our honor , and treated a number of well - thumbed Latin classics , us altogether with great consideration . We Virgil , Terence , Cicero's Epistles ...
Page 687
... once to work , stretching forward their long front legs , which are in constant motion and seem act as feelers , and then applying their short , broad snouts to the skin . Their abdo- mens soon become distended and red with blood , and ...
... once to work , stretching forward their long front legs , which are in constant motion and seem act as feelers , and then applying their short , broad snouts to the skin . Their abdo- mens soon become distended and red with blood , and ...
Page 740
... once had the habit of assuming the shape of a beautiful woman , with hair hang- ing loose to her heels , and walking ashore at night in the streets of Ega , to entice the young men down to the water . If any one was so much snitten as ...
... once had the habit of assuming the shape of a beautiful woman , with hair hang- ing loose to her heels , and walking ashore at night in the streets of Ega , to entice the young men down to the water . If any one was so much snitten as ...
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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 larv¿ 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