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 694
... fruit of this fine palm ripens toward the end of the year , and is much es- teemed by the natives , who manufacture a pleasant drink from it similar to the assai de scribed in a former chapter , by rubbing off the coat of pulp from the ...
... fruit of this fine palm ripens toward the end of the year , and is much es- teemed by the natives , who manufacture a pleasant drink from it similar to the assai de scribed in a former chapter , by rubbing off the coat of pulp from the ...
Page 728
... Fruit of the ordinary tropical sorts could generally be had . I was quite surprised at the variety of the wild kinds , and of the de- licious flavor of some of them . Many of these are utterly unknown in the regions nearer the Atlantic ...
... Fruit of the ordinary tropical sorts could generally be had . I was quite surprised at the variety of the wild kinds , and of the de- licious flavor of some of them . Many of these are utterly unknown in the regions nearer the Atlantic ...
Page 756
... fruit is undoubtedly the chief food of Toucans , and it is in reference to their mode of obtaining it that the use of their uncouth bills is to be sought . Flowers and fruit on the crowns of the large trees of South American forests ...
... fruit is undoubtedly the chief food of Toucans , and it is in reference to their mode of obtaining it that the use of their uncouth bills is to be sought . Flowers and fruit on the crowns of the large trees of South American forests ...
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