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 630
... main river , their descendants having amalgamated with the white and negro immigrants ; many still exist , how- ever , in their original state on the Upper Am- azons and most of the branch rivers . On this account Indians in this ...
... main river , their descendants having amalgamated with the white and negro immigrants ; many still exist , how- ever , in their original state on the Upper Am- azons and most of the branch rivers . On this account Indians in this ...
Page 690
... important settlement on the banks of the main river from Peru to the Atlantic . The pretty little town , or city as it is called , with its rows of tolerably uniform whitewashed and red - tiled houses , surrounded by green gardens and ...
... important settlement on the banks of the main river from Peru to the Atlantic . The pretty little town , or city as it is called , with its rows of tolerably uniform whitewashed and red - tiled houses , surrounded by green gardens and ...
Page 702
... main river . The trade - wind does not deviate from its nearly straight westerly course , so that the branch streams , which run generally at right angles to the Amazons , and have a slack current for a long distance from their mouths ...
... main river . The trade - wind does not deviate from its nearly straight westerly course , so that the branch streams , which run generally at right angles to the Amazons , and have a slack current for a long distance from their mouths ...
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