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 706
... feet from the days . We had together several long and cabin door . I could find no explanation of successful rambles along a narrow pathway the circumstance , and , my men being all which extended several miles into the forest . ashore ...
... feet from the days . We had together several long and cabin door . I could find no explanation of successful rambles along a narrow pathway the circumstance , and , my men being all which extended several miles into the forest . ashore ...
Page 730
... feet , but it is , in some years , much more extensive , laying the large sand islands under water before the turtle - eggs are hatched . In one year , while I resided at Ega , this second annual inundation reached to within ten feet of ...
... feet , but it is , in some years , much more extensive , laying the large sand islands under water before the turtle - eggs are hatched . In one year , while I resided at Ega , this second annual inundation reached to within ten feet of ...
Page 747
... feet , the largest seven or eight feet in diame ter . As we approached the most extensive of the larger ones , I was startled at seeing a number of large serpent - like heads bobbing above the surface . They proved to be those of ...
... feet , the largest seven or eight feet in diame ter . As we approached the most extensive of the larger ones , I was startled at seeing a number of large serpent - like heads bobbing above the surface . They proved to be those of ...
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