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 641
... whole slowly moves to the sound of muffled drums . A double procession is man- aged a few days afterward . The image of St. Mary is carried in one direction , and that of the Saviour in another . The two images meet in the middle of one ...
... whole slowly moves to the sound of muffled drums . A double procession is man- aged a few days afterward . The image of St. Mary is carried in one direction , and that of the Saviour in another . The two images meet in the middle of one ...
Page 718
... whole party , each of whom had a thick steel thimble and a stock of needles and thread of his own . Vicente made for me a set of blue - check cotton shirts during the passage . The goodness of these Indians , like that of most others ...
... whole party , each of whom had a thick steel thimble and a stock of needles and thread of his own . Vicente made for me a set of blue - check cotton shirts during the passage . The goodness of these Indians , like that of most others ...
Page 722
... whole time of my residence . I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilized world down river , from the irregularity of receipt of letters , parcels of books and peri- odicals , and toward the ...
... whole time of my residence . I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilized world down river , from the irregularity of receipt of letters , parcels of books and peri- odicals , and toward the ...
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