The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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Page 160
... dogs compared with the hairless dogs of China , which Humboldt says have certainly been extremely common since very early times . Perhaps another link might be added to the broken chain of evidence that connects the peoples of the two ...
... dogs compared with the hairless dogs of China , which Humboldt says have certainly been extremely common since very early times . Perhaps another link might be added to the broken chain of evidence that connects the peoples of the two ...
Page 161
... dog , " but this appears rather a forced derivation . Chichi is Aztec for to suck ; and it seems to me more probable that the little dogs they eat , and which are spoken of by the Spaniards as making very tender and delicate food , were ...
... dog , " but this appears rather a forced derivation . Chichi is Aztec for to suck ; and it seems to me more probable that the little dogs they eat , and which are spoken of by the Spaniards as making very tender and delicate food , were ...
Page 294
... dogs were placed on an island where there was plenty of food for the hares but none for the dogs , except the hares they could catch ; the slowest of the hares would be first killed , and the swifter preserved . Then the slowest - running ...
... dogs were placed on an island where there was plenty of food for the hares but none for the dogs , except the hares they could catch ; the slowest of the hares would be first killed , and the swifter preserved . Then the slowest - running ...
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