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 TravelHumboldt Publishing Company, 1889 - 774 pages |
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Page 674
... Negro - Description of Barra- Desceut to Pará - Yellow Fever . A TRADER of Obydos , named Menna , was about proceeding in a cuberta laden with merchandise to the Rio Negro , intending to stop frequently on the road , so I bargained with ...
... Negro - Description of Barra- Desceut to Pará - Yellow Fever . A TRADER of Obydos , named Menna , was about proceeding in a cuberta laden with merchandise to the Rio Negro , intending to stop frequently on the road , so I bargained with ...
Page 688
... Negro and those of the Ama- zous arises from the predominance in each of different families of plants . On the main river palms of twenty or thirty different species form a great proportion of the mass of trees , while on the Rio Negro ...
... Negro and those of the Ama- zous arises from the predominance in each of different families of plants . On the main river palms of twenty or thirty different species form a great proportion of the mass of trees , while on the Rio Negro ...
Page 716
... Negro in the seventh chapter , to make way for the description of Santarem and its neighborhood . the tearing current , two or three miles in breadth , bore along a continuous line of up rooted trees and islets of floating plants . The ...
... Negro in the seventh chapter , to make way for the description of Santarem and its neighborhood . the tearing current , two or three miles in breadth , bore along a continuous line of up rooted trees and islets of floating plants . The ...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2015 |
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