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 656
... covered canoe . The cuberta is very much used on these rivers . It is not decked , but the sides forward are raised , and arched over , so as to admit of cargo being piled high above the water - line . At the stern is a neat square ...
... covered canoe . The cuberta is very much used on these rivers . It is not decked , but the sides forward are raised , and arched over , so as to admit of cargo being piled high above the water - line . At the stern is a neat square ...
Page 719
... covered with black punctures that the little bloodsuckers could not very easily find an unoccupied place to operate upon . Poor Miguel , the Portuguese , suffered horribly from these pests , his ankles and wrists being so much inflamed ...
... covered with black punctures that the little bloodsuckers could not very easily find an unoccupied place to operate upon . Poor Miguel , the Portuguese , suffered horribly from these pests , his ankles and wrists being so much inflamed ...
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... covered with a peculiar vegetation : harsh , having started off into the jungle after a peccary ( a kind of wild hog ) which had come near to where we sat , but on seeing us had given a grunt and bounded off into the thick- ets . At ...
... covered with a peculiar vegetation : harsh , having started off into the jungle after a peccary ( a kind of wild hog ) which had come near to where we sat , but on seeing us had given a grunt and bounded off into the thick- ets . At ...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures ..., 1. köide Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2017 |
The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2018 |
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