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 687
... once to work , stretching forward their long front legs , which are in constant motion and seem to act as feelers , and then applying their short , broad snouts to the skin . Their abdo- mens soon become distended and red with blood ...
... once to work , stretching forward their long front legs , which are in constant motion and seem to act as feelers , and then applying their short , broad snouts to the skin . Their abdo- mens soon become distended and red with blood ...
Page 728
... once experienced from a diet of fresh tapir meat for a few days , after having been brought to a painful state of bodily and mental depression by & month's scanty rations of fish and farinha . We sometimes had fresh bread at Ega , made ...
... once experienced from a diet of fresh tapir meat for a few days , after having been brought to a painful state of bodily and mental depression by & month's scanty rations of fish and farinha . We sometimes had fresh bread at Ega , made ...
Page 740
... once had the habit of assuming the shape of a beautiful woman , with hair hang- ing loose to her heels , and walking ashore at night in the streets of Ega , to entice the young men down to the water . If any one was so much snitten as ...
... once had the habit of assuming the shape of a beautiful woman , with hair hang- ing loose to her heels , and walking ashore at night in the streets of Ega , to entice the young men down to the water . If any one was so much snitten as ...
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