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 667
... travelling companions . We lived almost the same as on board ship . Our meals were cooked in the galley ; but ... travellers . The cuyas - drinking cups made from gourds — are sometimes very tastefully painted . The rich black ground ...
... travelling companions . We lived almost the same as on board ship . Our meals were cooked in the galley ; but ... travellers . The cuyas - drinking cups made from gourds — are sometimes very tastefully painted . The rich black ground ...
Page 718
... travelled for several hours at great speed , leaving the poor fellow paddle after us against the strong current ... travelling encircled the whole earth , and that the land was an island like those seen in the stream , but larger ...
... travelled for several hours at great speed , leaving the poor fellow paddle after us against the strong current ... travelling encircled the whole earth , and that the land was an island like those seen in the stream , but larger ...
Page 721
... travelled little settlement : a cluster of a hundred or for three days along a broad reach , which so of palm ... travelling all day on houses , and a number of dark - skinned natives the 30th of April along a high and rather were ...
... travelled little settlement : a cluster of a hundred or for three days along a broad reach , which so of palm ... travelling all day on houses , and a number of dark - skinned natives the 30th of April along a high and rather were ...
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Naturalist on the River Amazons, a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2007 |
The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2014 |
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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 larvæ 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