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 650
... falls can be approached in small canoes by thread- ing the less dangerous channels . The main fall is about a quarter of a mile wide ; we climbed to an elevation overlooking it , and had a good view of the cataract . A body of water ...
... falls can be approached in small canoes by thread- ing the less dangerous channels . The main fall is about a quarter of a mile wide ; we climbed to an elevation overlooking it , and had a good view of the cataract . A body of water ...
Page 712
... falls , which form a cataract several feet in height about fifteen miles beyond our anchorage . The macaws were ... falls about ten o'clock . The river here is not more than forty yards broad , and falls over a low ledge of rock ...
... falls , which form a cataract several feet in height about fifteen miles beyond our anchorage . The macaws were ... falls about ten o'clock . The river here is not more than forty yards broad , and falls over a low ledge of rock ...
Page 729
... falls of the river , with which coincide the wet and dry periods . All the principal transactions of life of the inhabitants are regulated by these yearly recurring phenomena . The pe- culiarity of this upper region consists in there ...
... falls of the river , with which coincide the wet and dry periods . All the principal transactions of life of the inhabitants are regulated by these yearly recurring phenomena . The pe- culiarity of this upper region consists in there ...
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