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 697
... sometimes emerging to crawl into hollow trees on the banks of the stream , where I once found a female and a nest of eggs . The lazy flapping flight of large blue and black morpho butterflies high in the air , the hum of insects , and ...
... sometimes emerging to crawl into hollow trees on the banks of the stream , where I once found a female and a nest of eggs . The lazy flapping flight of large blue and black morpho butterflies high in the air , the hum of insects , and ...
Page 698
... sometimes benighted on the campos . We out of the way until we were close to him . did not care for this on moonlit nights , when If we jerked him out of the path with a stick , there was no danger of losing the path . The he would ...
... sometimes benighted on the campos . We out of the way until we were close to him . did not care for this on moonlit nights , when If we jerked him out of the path with a stick , there was no danger of losing the path . The he would ...
Page 728
... sometimes had fresh bread at Ega , made from American flour brought from Pará , but it was sold at ninepence a pound . I was once two years without tasting wheaten bread , and attribute partly to this the gradual deterioration of health ...
... sometimes had fresh bread at Ega , made from American flour brought from Pará , but it was sold at ninepence a pound . I was once two years without tasting wheaten bread , and attribute partly to this the gradual deterioration of health ...
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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