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 646
... crossing lines , which give is a re- semblance to a quilted cricket - ball . About midnight , the tide being favorable and the breeze strong , we crossed the river , taking it in a slanting direction , a distance of sixteen miles , and ...
... crossing lines , which give is a re- semblance to a quilted cricket - ball . About midnight , the tide being favorable and the breeze strong , we crossed the river , taking it in a slanting direction , a distance of sixteen miles , and ...
Page 670
... crossed the river three times between Atlantic . The river has only two slight Monte Alegre and the next town ... crossing them From information obtained here , I fixed upon the next town , Obydos , as the best place to stay at a few ...
... crossed the river three times between Atlantic . The river has only two slight Monte Alegre and the next town ... crossing them From information obtained here , I fixed upon the next town , Obydos , as the best place to stay at a few ...
Page 744
... crossed a muddy creek or water - course that entered the lake , and then found ourselves on a restinga , or tongue of land between two waters . By keeping in sight of one or the other of these there was no danger of our losing our way ...
... crossed a muddy creek or water - course that entered the lake , and then found ourselves on a restinga , or tongue of land between two waters . By keeping in sight of one or the other of these there was no danger of our losing our way ...
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