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 685
... fish is scarce , season Tu- cupí with Saüba ants . It is there used chiefly as a sauce to Tacacá , another preparation from mandioca , consisting of the starch beaten up in boiling water . I thoroughly enjoyed the nine days we spent at ...
... fish is scarce , season Tu- cupí with Saüba ants . It is there used chiefly as a sauce to Tacacá , another preparation from mandioca , consisting of the starch beaten up in boiling water . I thoroughly enjoyed the nine days we spent at ...
Page 700
... fish , and the boys and women go out at night to spear them by torchlight , the torches being made of thin strips of green bark from the leaf - stalks of palms , tied in bundles . Many excellent kinds of fish are thus obtained , among ...
... fish , and the boys and women go out at night to spear them by torchlight , the torches being made of thin strips of green bark from the leaf - stalks of palms , tied in bundles . Many excellent kinds of fish are thus obtained , among ...
Page 729
... fish or Vacca marina . : The seasons in the Upper Amazons region offer some points of difference from those of the lower river and the district of Pará , which two sections of the country we have already seen also differ considerably ...
... fish or Vacca marina . : The seasons in the Upper Amazons region offer some points of difference from those of the lower river and the district of Pará , which two sections of the country we have already seen also differ considerably ...
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