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 624
... close , the sky overcast , and sheet lightning played almost incessantly around the horizon , an ap- propriate greeting on the threshold of a coun- try lying close under the equator ! The evening was calm , this being the season when ...
... close , the sky overcast , and sheet lightning played almost incessantly around the horizon , an ap- propriate greeting on the threshold of a coun- try lying close under the equator ! The evening was calm , this being the season when ...
Page 687
... close ex- amination they are seen to be minute two winged insects , with dark - colored body and pale legs and wings , the latter closed length- wise over the back . They alight impercep- tibly , and squatting close , fall at once to ...
... close ex- amination they are seen to be minute two winged insects , with dark - colored body and pale legs and wings , the latter closed length- wise over the back . They alight impercep- tibly , and squatting close , fall at once to ...
Page 732
... close beneath their crowns , were clothed with a thick mass of glossy shield - shaped Pothos plants , mingled with ferns . Arrived at this part , we were , in fact , in the heart of the virgin forest . We heard no noises of ani- mals in ...
... close beneath their crowns , were clothed with a thick mass of glossy shield - shaped Pothos plants , mingled with ferns . Arrived at this part , we were , in fact , in the heart of the virgin forest . We heard no noises of ani- mals in ...
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