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 95
... live on trees are again either diurnal or nocturnal , for Myrmecophaga tetradactyla is seen moving along the main branches in the daytime . The allied group of the Sloths , which are still more exclusively South American forms than ant ...
... live on trees are again either diurnal or nocturnal , for Myrmecophaga tetradactyla is seen moving along the main branches in the daytime . The allied group of the Sloths , which are still more exclusively South American forms than ant ...
Page 147
... live in a semi - civilized con- dition on the banks of the numerous channels and lakes . The trade of the place is chiefly in india - rubber , balsam of copaiba ( which are collected on the banks of the Madeira and the numerous rivers ...
... live in a semi - civilized con- dition on the banks of the numerous channels and lakes . The trade of the place is chiefly in india - rubber , balsam of copaiba ( which are collected on the banks of the Madeira and the numerous rivers ...
Page 388
... live again amidst these dull scenes I was quitting a country of perpetual summer , where my life had been spent like that of three - fourths of the people in gipsy fashion , on the endless streams or in the boundless forests . I was ...
... live again amidst these dull scenes I was quitting a country of perpetual summer , where my life had been spent like that of three - fourths of the people in gipsy fashion , on the endless streams or in the boundless forests . I was ...
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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