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 Travel |
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... nearly all other agriculAbout midnight , the tide being favorable tural
implements , unknown , the same ground and the breeze strong , we crossed the
river , is not planted three years together ; but a taking it in a slanting direction , a
distance ...
... nearly all other agriculAbout midnight , the tide being favorable tural
implements , unknown , the same ground and the breeze strong , we crossed the
river , is not planted three years together ; but a taking it in a slanting direction , a
distance ...
Page 674
three males seated on a low branch , and huge ant one . ping slowly backward
and forward , uear in On leaving the port of Obydos we crossed one another , as
though engaged in a kind of over to the right bank , and sailed with a dance .
three males seated on a low branch , and huge ant one . ping slowly backward
and forward , uear in On leaving the port of Obydos we crossed one another , as
though engaged in a kind of over to the right bank , and sailed with a dance .
Page 744
Only two of crossed a inuddy creek or water - course that these trips afforded
incidents worth relating . entered the lake , and then found ourselves The first ,
which was made to the interior on a restinga , or tongue of land between two of
the ...
Only two of crossed a inuddy creek or water - course that these trips afforded
incidents worth relating . entered the lake , and then found ourselves The first ,
which was made to the interior on a restinga , or tongue of land between two of
the ...
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