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 233
... half an hour , but the terral was over for the night , so we pulled towards the shore to find an anchoring place . We reached Tapaiuna by midnight on the 23rd , and on the morning of the 24th arrived at the Retiro , where we met a ...
... half an hour , but the terral was over for the night , so we pulled towards the shore to find an anchoring place . We reached Tapaiuna by midnight on the 23rd , and on the morning of the 24th arrived at the Retiro , where we met a ...
Page 282
... half - way over his broad shoul ders . Pedro - uassú had not drunk much ; he was noted , as I afterwards learnt , for his temperance . But he was standing up as I had left him two hours previously , talking to Cardozo in the same ...
... half - way over his broad shoul ders . Pedro - uassú had not drunk much ; he was noted , as I afterwards learnt , for his temperance . But he was standing up as I had left him two hours previously , talking to Cardozo in the same ...
Page 368
... half - castes at Tunantins , and afterwards saw others at Fonte Boa , blotched in the same way . The disease would seem to be contagious , for I was told that a Portuguese trader became disfigured with it after cohabiting some years ...
... half - castes at Tunantins , and afterwards saw others at Fonte Boa , blotched in the same way . The disease would seem to be contagious , for I was told that a Portuguese trader became disfigured with it after cohabiting some years ...
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