The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests; with Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsE. Bumpus, 1888 - 403 pages |
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... Nicaragua - Excursions around Santo Domingo - The Artígua - Corruption of ancient names -Butterflies , spiders , and wasps - Humming - birds , beetles , and ants - Plants and trees - Timber - Monkey attacked by eagle - White - faced ...
... Nicaragua - Excursions around Santo Domingo - The Artígua - Corruption of ancient names -Butterflies , spiders , and wasps - Humming - birds , beetles , and ants - Plants and trees - Timber - Monkey attacked by eagle - White - faced ...
Page xxix
... Nicaragua -Native flour - mill - Uncomfortable lodgings - Tierrabona- Dust whirlwind — Initial form of a cyclone ... Nicaragua into three zones -- Journey from Juigalpa to lake of Nicaragua - Voyage on lake - Fresh - water shells and ...
... Nicaragua -Native flour - mill - Uncomfortable lodgings - Tierrabona- Dust whirlwind — Initial form of a cyclone ... Nicaragua into three zones -- Journey from Juigalpa to lake of Nicaragua - Voyage on lake - Fresh - water shells and ...
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... Nicaragua and the Pacific - Discovery and conquest of Nica- ragua by the Spaniards - Cruelties of the Spaniards - The Indians of Western Central America all belonged to one stock - Decadence of Mexican civilisation before the arrival of ...
... Nicaragua and the Pacific - Discovery and conquest of Nica- ragua by the Spaniards - Cruelties of the Spaniards - The Indians of Western Central America all belonged to one stock - Decadence of Mexican civilisation before the arrival of ...
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... NICARAGUA PAGE 233 239 261 319 · 348 • 380 381 382 at the end . THE NATURALIST IN NICARAGUA . CHAPTER I. Arrival at Greytown xxxii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
... NICARAGUA PAGE 233 239 261 319 · 348 • 380 381 382 at the end . THE NATURALIST IN NICARAGUA . CHAPTER I. Arrival at Greytown xxxii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
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... Nicaragua in Central America . We lay about a mile from the shore , and saw a low flat coast stretching before us . It was the delta of the river San Juan , into which flows the drainage of a great part of Nicaragua and Costa Rica , and ...
... Nicaragua in Central America . We lay about a mile from the shore , and saw a low flat coast stretching before us . It was the delta of the river San Juan , into which flows the drainage of a great part of Nicaragua and Costa Rica , and ...
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