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 657
... reach- ing port , I begged Senhor Machado to send me ashore in the boat , with the more pre- cious portion of my collections . CHAPTER V. CARIPÍ AND THE BAY OF MARAJÓ . River Pará and Bay of Marajó - Journey to Caripí- Negro Observance ...
... reach- ing port , I begged Senhor Machado to send me ashore in the boat , with the more pre- cious portion of my collections . CHAPTER V. CARIPÍ AND THE BAY OF MARAJÓ . River Pará and Bay of Marajó - Journey to Caripí- Negro Observance ...
Page 670
... reach . I subsequently made this place my headquar ters for three years . An account of its neigh- borhood is therefore reserved for another chapter . At the first sight of Santarem , one cannot help being struck with the advantages of ...
... reach . I subsequently made this place my headquar ters for three years . An account of its neigh- borhood is therefore reserved for another chapter . At the first sight of Santarem , one cannot help being struck with the advantages of ...
Page 690
... reach after reach , as the voyager advances , weary by their uniformity . I arrived at Santarem on my second jour . ney into the interior , in November , 1851 , and made it my head - quarters for a period . as it turned out , of three ...
... reach after reach , as the voyager advances , weary by their uniformity . I arrived at Santarem on my second jour . ney into the interior , in November , 1851 , and made it my head - quarters for a period . as it turned out , of three ...
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