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 645
... kind of sub estuary within the grand estuary of Pará . It is nearly four miles broad . The left bank , along which we were now sailing , was beau- tiful in the extreme ; not an inch of soil was to be seen ; the water frontage presented ...
... kind of sub estuary within the grand estuary of Pará . It is nearly four miles broad . The left bank , along which we were now sailing , was beau- tiful in the extreme ; not an inch of soil was to be seen ; the water frontage presented ...
Page 713
... kind called Sarapó came wriggling along , one by one , with a slow movement . We caught with hook and line , baited with pieces of banana , several Curi- matá ( Anodus Amazonum ) a most delicious fish , which , next to the Tucunaré and ...
... kind called Sarapó came wriggling along , one by one , with a slow movement . We caught with hook and line , baited with pieces of banana , several Curi- matá ( Anodus Amazonum ) a most delicious fish , which , next to the Tucunaré and ...
Page 728
... kind of meal is manufactured at Ega of the sweet mandioca ( Manihot Aypi ) ; it is generally made with a mixture of the starch of the root , and is therefore a much more whole- some article of food than the ordinary sort which , on the ...
... kind of meal is manufactured at Ega of the sweet mandioca ( Manihot Aypi ) ; it is generally made with a mixture of the starch of the root , and is therefore a much more whole- some article of food than the ordinary sort which , on the ...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2015 |
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