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 641
... carried after the saint on the shoulders of officers or men of the Brazilian navy , and along with it are borne the other symbols of the miracles which Our Lady is supposed to have per- formed . The procession starts soon after the ...
... carried after the saint on the shoulders of officers or men of the Brazilian navy , and along with it are borne the other symbols of the miracles which Our Lady is supposed to have per- formed . The procession starts soon after the ...
Page 711
... carry , their arrows and javelins . They had the dia- bolical custom , in former days , of cutting off the heads of ... carried on between the Mundurucús and the Aráras . I was told by a Frenchman at Santarem , who had visited that part ...
... carry , their arrows and javelins . They had the dia- bolical custom , in former days , of cutting off the heads of ... carried on between the Mundurucús and the Aráras . I was told by a Frenchman at Santarem , who had visited that part ...
Page 761
... carried in their jaws a little cluster of white mag- gots , which I thought at the time might be young larvæ of their own colony , but after- ward found reason to conclude were the grubs of some other species whose nests they had been ...
... carried in their jaws a little cluster of white mag- gots , which I thought at the time might be young larvæ of their own colony , but after- ward found reason to conclude were the grubs of some other species whose nests they had been ...
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