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 639
... obtained . We were glad of course to arrange with Mr. Leavens , who was familiar with the language , and an adept in ... obtaining the necessary permission from Rome to abolish several which were of minor importance . Many of those which ...
... obtained . We were glad of course to arrange with Mr. Leavens , who was familiar with the language , and an adept in ... obtaining the necessary permission from Rome to abolish several which were of minor importance . Many of those which ...
Page 696
... obtained willing to undertake it . Besides , there were reports of a settlement of fierce runaway negroes on the Serra de Mururarú , and it was considered unsafe to go far in that direction , except with a large armed party . I visited ...
... obtained willing to undertake it . Besides , there were reports of a settlement of fierce runaway negroes on the Serra de Mururarú , and it was considered unsafe to go far in that direction , except with a large armed party . I visited ...
Page 704
... obtained the mastery , and before I could in- terfere finished his rival by cracking its skull with his teeth . Upon this I got rid of him . After I had obtained the two men prom- ised , stout young Indians , 17 or 18 years of age , one ...
... obtained the mastery , and before I could in- terfere finished his rival by cracking its skull with his teeth . Upon this I got rid of him . After I had obtained the two men prom- ised , stout young Indians , 17 or 18 years of age , one ...
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