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 631
... forest . The owner was an old Portuguese gentleman named Danin , who lived at his tile manufactory at the mouth of the Una , a small river lying two miles below Pará . We resolved to walk to his place through the forest , a distance of ...
... forest . The owner was an old Portuguese gentleman named Danin , who lived at his tile manufactory at the mouth of the Una , a small river lying two miles below Pará . We resolved to walk to his place through the forest , a distance of ...
Page 636
... forest . I afterward saw reason to modify my opinion , founded on these first impressions , with regard to the amount and variety of an- imal life in this and other parts of the Ama- zonian forests . There is , in fact , a great va ...
... forest . I afterward saw reason to modify my opinion , founded on these first impressions , with regard to the amount and variety of an- imal life in this and other parts of the Ama- zonian forests . There is , in fact , a great va ...
Page 688
... forest . The stem is smooth , and about two inches in diameter ; its height is not more than twelve to fifteen feet ; it does not , there- fore , rise among the masses of foliage of the exogenous trees , so as to form a feature in the ...
... forest . The stem is smooth , and about two inches in diameter ; its height is not more than twelve to fifteen feet ; it does not , there- fore , rise among the masses of foliage of the exogenous trees , so as to form a feature in the ...
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