The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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... mountain road - A poor lodg- ing The rock of Cuapo - The use of large beaks in some birds - Comoapa - A native doctor - Vultures - Flight of birds that soar - Natives live from generation to generation on the same spot - Do not give ...
... mountain road - A poor lodg- ing The rock of Cuapo - The use of large beaks in some birds - Comoapa - A native doctor - Vultures - Flight of birds that soar - Natives live from generation to generation on the same spot - Do not give ...
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... mountain - path to avoid some very bad swamps that we were told we should encounter if we went by the main road . The mountain range was bare and bleak , but we had a fine view over the surrounding country . Opposite to us , on the ...
... mountain - path to avoid some very bad swamps that we were told we should encounter if we went by the main road . The mountain range was bare and bleak , but we had a fine view over the surrounding country . Opposite to us , on the ...
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... mountain on the east coast , and the Souffrière is at the northern end . It is im- possible , meanwhile , that the wreck of such a mountain should not have left traces visible and notorious to this day . May not the truth be , that the ...
... mountain on the east coast , and the Souffrière is at the northern end . It is im- possible , meanwhile , that the wreck of such a mountain should not have left traces visible and notorious to this day . May not the truth be , that the ...
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