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 170
... obtain them only by employing a native hunter , who used to spend a whole day and go a great distance to obtain two or three specimens . In this way I obtained , amongst others , specimens of the Trogon pavoninus ( the Suruquá grande of ...
... obtain them only by employing a native hunter , who used to spend a whole day and go a great distance to obtain two or three specimens . In this way I obtained , amongst others , specimens of the Trogon pavoninus ( the Suruquá grande of ...
Page 209
... obtained the mastery , and before I could interfere , finished his rival by cracking its skull with his teeth . Upon this I got rid of him . After I had obtained the two men promised , stout young Indians , 17 or 18 years of age , one ...
... obtained the mastery , and before I could interfere , finished his rival by cracking its skull with his teeth . Upon this I got rid of him . After I had obtained the two men promised , stout young Indians , 17 or 18 years of age , one ...
Page 329
... obtained alive by shooting them with the blow - pipe and arrows tipped with diluted Urarí poison . They run a con- siderable distance after being pierced , and it requires an experienced hunter to track them . He is considered the most ...
... obtained alive by shooting them with the blow - pipe and arrows tipped with diluted Urarí poison . They run a con- siderable distance after being pierced , and it requires an experienced hunter to track them . He is considered the most ...
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