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 631
... walk to his place through the forest , a distance of three miles , although the road was said to be scarcely passable at this season of the year , and the Una much more easily accessible by boat . We were glad , however , of this early ...
... walk to his place through the forest , a distance of three miles , although the road was said to be scarcely passable at this season of the year , and the Una much more easily accessible by boat . We were glad , however , of this early ...
Page 639
... walks about the floors of houses , picking up scraps of food , or catching insects , which it secures by walk- ing gently to the place where they settle , and spearing them with its long slender beak . It allows itself to be handled by ...
... walks about the floors of houses , picking up scraps of food , or catching insects , which it secures by walk- ing gently to the place where they settle , and spearing them with its long slender beak . It allows itself to be handled by ...
Page 696
... walk from Santarem over the campos . I tried it one day , but did not reach the summit . A dense growth of coarse grasses clothed the steep sides of the hill , with here and there a stunted tree of kinds found in the plain beneath . In ...
... walk from Santarem over the campos . I tried it one day , but did not reach the summit . A dense growth of coarse grasses clothed the steep sides of the hill , with here and there a stunted tree of kinds found in the plain beneath . In ...
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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 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