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 TravelDover Publications, 1975 - 394 pages |
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Page 245
... animal . The meat was cut into cubical slabs , and each person skewered a dozen or so of these on a long stick . Fires were made , and the spits stuck in the ground and slanted over the flames to roast . A drizzling rain fell all the ...
... animal . The meat was cut into cubical slabs , and each person skewered a dozen or so of these on a long stick . Fires were made , and the spits stuck in the ground and slanted over the flames to roast . A drizzling rain fell all the ...
Page 330
... animal in this condi- tion looks at a short distance as though some one had laid a thick coat of red paint on its countenance . The death of my pet was slow ; during the last twenty - four hours it lay prostrate , breathing quickly ...
... animal in this condi- tion looks at a short distance as though some one had laid a thick coat of red paint on its countenance . The death of my pet was slow ; during the last twenty - four hours it lay prostrate , breathing quickly ...
Page 336
... animal is brownish - tawny , but the tail is elegantly barred with black . I was surprised on my return to England to learn , from specimens in the British Museum , that the pigmy marmoset was found also in Mexico , no other Amazonian ...
... animal is brownish - tawny , but the tail is elegantly barred with black . I was surprised on my return to England to learn , from specimens in the British Museum , that the pigmy marmoset was found also in Mexico , no other Amazonian ...
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afterwards alligator amongst animal ants appearance ashore banks beautiful birds branches Brazilian broad cacao Cafuzo called Cametá campos canoe Cardozo Catuá channel clothed coast colour creek distance dry season Ecitons eggs farinha feet fish flocks foliage Fonte Boa forest fruit habits hammocks head height inches Indians inhabitants insects interior islands Jabutí jaguar Japurá kind lake land larvæ leaves length live lower main river mameluco mandioca miles monkeys montaria morning mouth narrow natives nearly neighbourhood neighbouring night o'clock paddle palm Paperbound Pará passed Passés pool Portuguese praia ramble Rio Negro round SAN DIEGO sand sandy Santarem seemed seen Senhor shore side skin Solimoens species specimens stream Tabatinga tail Tapajos Teffé thickets Tocantins Toucan trees tribe trunks Tupí turtles Upper Amazons vegetation vessel village voyage walk whilst wild wind woods yards young