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 650
... stream became again broad and deep , and the river scenery was beautiful in the extreme . The water was clear , and of a bluish - green color . On both sides of the stream stretched ranges of wooded hills , and in the middle picturesque ...
... stream became again broad and deep , and the river scenery was beautiful in the extreme . The water was clear , and of a bluish - green color . On both sides of the stream stretched ranges of wooded hills , and in the middle picturesque ...
Page 670
... stream , whose light green vivid verdure formed a strangely beautiful foreground to the glorious landsc pe of broad stream and gray mountain . Ninety miles beyond Almeyrim stands the village of Monte Alegre , which is built near the ...
... stream , whose light green vivid verdure formed a strangely beautiful foreground to the glorious landsc pe of broad stream and gray mountain . Ninety miles beyond Almeyrim stands the village of Monte Alegre , which is built near the ...
Page 720
... stream , but on the shores of inlets and lakes . The fishermen twice brought me small Bounded pieces of very perous pumice - stone , which they had picked up floating on the surface of the main current of the river . They were to ine ...
... stream , but on the shores of inlets and lakes . The fishermen twice brought me small Bounded pieces of very perous pumice - stone , which they had picked up floating on the surface of the main current of the river . They were to ine ...
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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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