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 659
... remained nearly all the time without motion , except when irritated , in which case it reared itself on its hind legs from the back of a chair to which it clung , and clawed out with its fore- paws like a cat . Its manner of clinging ...
... remained nearly all the time without motion , except when irritated , in which case it reared itself on its hind legs from the back of a chair to which it clung , and clawed out with its fore- paws like a cat . Its manner of clinging ...
Page 664
... remained in the canoe , in the neighborhood of which I employed myself two hours entomologizing . At the end of that time my two companions returned , having met with no game whatever We now embarked on our return voyage . Raimundo cut ...
... remained in the canoe , in the neighborhood of which I employed myself two hours entomologizing . At the end of that time my two companions returned , having met with no game whatever We now embarked on our return voyage . Raimundo cut ...
Page 681
... remained ten days to trade , a delay which I turned to good account in augmenting very considerably my collec- tions . At the first house a festival was going for- ward . We anchored at some distance from the shore , on account of the ...
... remained ten days to trade , a delay which I turned to good account in augmenting very considerably my collec- tions . At the first house a festival was going for- ward . We anchored at some distance from the shore , on account of the ...
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