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 632
... Tupí language , Jacitára . These have slender , thickly - spined , and flexuous stems , which twine about the taller trees from one to the other , and grow to an incredible length . The leaves , which have the ordinary pinnate shape ...
... Tupí language , Jacitára . These have slender , thickly - spined , and flexuous stems , which twine about the taller trees from one to the other , and grow to an incredible length . The leaves , which have the ordinary pinnate shape ...
Page 677
... Tupí language , Tai- assú uirá , or pig - birds . They remain seated sometimes for hours together on low branches On ... Tupí stock than the Mauhes . Senhor Lima told me , what I afterward found to be correct , that there were scarcely ...
... Tupí language , Tai- assú uirá , or pig - birds . They remain seated sometimes for hours together on low branches On ... Tupí stock than the Mauhes . Senhor Lima told me , what I afterward found to be correct , that there were scarcely ...
Page 725
... Tupí is spoken with little corruption along the banks of the main Amazons for a distance of 2500 miles . The purity of Tupí is kept up by frequent communication among the natives , from one end to the other of the main river ; how ...
... Tupí is spoken with little corruption along the banks of the main Amazons for a distance of 2500 miles . The purity of Tupí is kept up by frequent communication among the natives , from one end to the other of the main river ; how ...
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