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 671
... campos , or grass- land districts , which border the Lago Grande and other sim.ia. inland lakes , near the vil lages of Faro and Alemquer . These campos bear a crop of nutritious grass ; but in cer- tain seasons , when the rising of the ...
... campos , or grass- land districts , which border the Lago Grande and other sim.ia. inland lakes , near the vil lages of Faro and Alemquer . These campos bear a crop of nutritious grass ; but in cer- tain seasons , when the rising of the ...
Page 692
... campos hammocks . About two miles on the road is renewed , and many of the campo trees , we come to a series of shallow pools , called especially the myrtles , which grow abun . the Laguinhos , which are connected with the dantly in one ...
... campos hammocks . About two miles on the road is renewed , and many of the campo trees , we come to a series of shallow pools , called especially the myrtles , which grow abun . the Laguinhos , which are connected with the dantly in one ...
Page 696
... campos . I tried it one day , but did not reach the summit . A dense growth of coarse grasses clothed the steep sides of the hill , with here and there a stunted tree of kinds found in the plain beneath . In bared places , a red crumbly ...
... campos . I tried it one day , but did not reach the summit . A dense growth of coarse grasses clothed the steep sides of the hill , with here and there a stunted tree of kinds found in the plain beneath . In bared places , a red crumbly ...
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