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
... Palms -each kind differing in stem , _ crown , and fronds the rich embroidery . The morning was calm and cloudless ; and the slanting beams of the early sun , striking full on the front of the forest , lighted up the whole most ...
... Palms -each kind differing in stem , _ crown , and fronds the rich embroidery . The morning was calm and cloudless ; and the slanting beams of the early sun , striking full on the front of the forest , lighted up the whole most ...
Page 661
... Palms , as usual , formed a large pro- portion of the lower trees ; some of them , however , shot up their slim stems to a height of sixty feet or more , and waved their bunches of nodding plumes between us and the sky . One kind of palm ...
... Palms , as usual , formed a large pro- portion of the lower trees ; some of them , however , shot up their slim stems to a height of sixty feet or more , and waved their bunches of nodding plumes between us and the sky . One kind of palm ...
Page 668
... palms decorated the water's edge , such as the Marajá - i ( Bactris , many species ) , the Ubim ( Geonoma ) , and a few stately Bacábas ( Enocarpus bacaba ) . The shape of this last is exceedingly elegant , the size of the crown being ...
... palms decorated the water's edge , such as the Marajá - i ( Bactris , many species ) , the Ubim ( Geonoma ) , and a few stately Bacábas ( Enocarpus bacaba ) . The shape of this last is exceedingly elegant , the size of the crown being ...
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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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