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 639
... Portuguese trader arrived with a quantity of worm - eaten logs of this cedar , which he had gathered from the floating timber in the cur- rent of the main Amazons . The tree pro- ducing this wood , which is named cedar on account of the ...
... Portuguese trader arrived with a quantity of worm - eaten logs of this cedar , which he had gathered from the floating timber in the cur- rent of the main Amazons . The tree pro- ducing this wood , which is named cedar on account of the ...
Page 652
... Portuguese word for syringe ; it owes this appellation to the circumstance that it was in this form only that the first Portuguese settlers noticed it to be employed by the aborigines . It is said that the Indians were first taught to ...
... Portuguese word for syringe ; it owes this appellation to the circumstance that it was in this form only that the first Portuguese settlers noticed it to be employed by the aborigines . It is said that the Indians were first taught to ...
Page 654
... Portuguese plays with considerable taste and ability . The people have a reputation all over the province for energy and persever- ance ; and it is often said that they are as keen in trade as the Portuguese . The lower classes are as ...
... Portuguese plays with considerable taste and ability . The people have a reputation all over the province for energy and persever- ance ; and it is often said that they are as keen in trade as the Portuguese . The lower classes are as ...
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