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 646
... Tocantins . I will defer giving an account of the place till the end of this narrative of our Tocantins voyage . We lost here another of our men , who got drinking with some old companions ashore , and were obliged to start on the ...
... Tocantins . I will defer giving an account of the place till the end of this narrative of our Tocantins voyage . We lost here another of our men , who got drinking with some old companions ashore , and were obliged to start on the ...
Page 654
... Tocantins , which is the most thickly populated part of the province of Pará . The productions of the district are cacao , india - rubber , and Brazil nuts . The most remarkable fea- ture in the social aspect of the piace is the hybrid ...
... Tocantins , which is the most thickly populated part of the province of Pará . The productions of the district are cacao , india - rubber , and Brazil nuts . The most remarkable fea- ture in the social aspect of the piace is the hybrid ...
Page 667
... Tocantins delta , was then about three miles distant . On the following day ( 25th ) we sailed to- ward the west , along the upper portion of the Pará estuary , which extends seventy miles beyond the mouth of the Tocantins . It va- ries ...
... Tocantins delta , was then about three miles distant . On the following day ( 25th ) we sailed to- ward the west , along the upper portion of the Pará estuary , which extends seventy miles beyond the mouth of the Tocantins . It va- ries ...
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