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 146
... surface of the pool , and in the bushes on its margin were great numbers of a kind of canary ( Sycalis brasi- liensis ) of a greenish - yellow colour , which has a short and not very melodious song . We had advanced but a few steps when ...
... surface of the pool , and in the bushes on its margin were great numbers of a kind of canary ( Sycalis brasi- liensis ) of a greenish - yellow colour , which has a short and not very melodious song . We had advanced but a few steps when ...
Page 288
... surface of the praia . The animals which thus wander from the main body are lawful prizes of the sentinels ; they had caught in this way two before sunrise , one of which we had for dinner . In my walk I disturbed several pairs of the ...
... surface of the praia . The animals which thus wander from the main body are lawful prizes of the sentinels ; they had caught in this way two before sunrise , one of which we had for dinner . In my walk I disturbed several pairs of the ...
Page 301
... surface , seized him round the waist and drew him under the water . A cry of agony , " Ai Jesús ! " was the last sign made by the wretched . victim . The village was aroused : the young men with praise- worthy readiness seized their ...
... surface , seized him round the waist and drew him under the water . A cry of agony , " Ai Jesús ! " was the last sign made by the wretched . victim . The village was aroused : the young men with praise- worthy readiness seized their ...
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