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 637
... short local rivers have no large canoes , called ubás , made of immense sources and downward currents , like rivers hollowed - out tree trunks ; in these they used as we generally understand them . They to go on war expeditions ...
... short local rivers have no large canoes , called ubás , made of immense sources and downward currents , like rivers hollowed - out tree trunks ; in these they used as we generally understand them . They to go on war expeditions ...
Page 681
... short arm of the main river , of a curved shape , rejoin- ing the Amazons a little below Villa Nova . On the 6th , after passing a large island in mid - river , we arrived at a place where a line of perpendicular clay cliffs , called ...
... short arm of the main river , of a curved shape , rejoin- ing the Amazons a little below Villa Nova . On the 6th , after passing a large island in mid - river , we arrived at a place where a line of perpendicular clay cliffs , called ...
Page 735
... short time we leaped safely ashore . A few months after the excursion just nar- rated , I accompanied Cardozo in many wan- derings on the Solimoens , during which we visited the praias ( sand islands ) , the turtle pools in the forests ...
... short time we leaped safely ashore . A few months after the excursion just nar- rated , I accompanied Cardozo in many wan- derings on the Solimoens , during which we visited the praias ( sand islands ) , the turtle pools in the forests ...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of ... Henry Walter Bates No preview available - 2015 |
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