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 FormsJ. Murray, 1874 - 403 pages |
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Page 38
... brought down the river by the Ulleros , and all these have the usual features and coarse black hair of the Indians . One little child that Dr. Seemann and I saw at San Carlos , in 1870 , had a few brownish hairs amongst the great mass ...
... brought down the river by the Ulleros , and all these have the usual features and coarse black hair of the Indians . One little child that Dr. Seemann and I saw at San Carlos , in 1870 , had a few brownish hairs amongst the great mass ...
Page 40
... brought down in triumph to San Carlos . Their excuse for carrying off the children is that they may be baptized and made Christians ; and I am sorry to say that this shameful treatment of the poor Indians is coun- tenanced and connived ...
... brought down in triumph to San Carlos . Their excuse for carrying off the children is that they may be baptized and made Christians ; and I am sorry to say that this shameful treatment of the poor Indians is coun- tenanced and connived ...
Page 43
... - capped peaks appeal to the imagination rather than to the eye . At this end of the lake the water is shallow , probably filled up by the mud brought down by the Rio Frio . We had still a voyage of sixty miles before us.
... - capped peaks appeal to the imagination rather than to the eye . At this end of the lake the water is shallow , probably filled up by the mud brought down by the Rio Frio . We had still a voyage of sixty miles before us.
Page 77
... brought out great numbers of dead ants that the fumes of the carbolic acid had killed . A few days afterwards , when I visited the locality again , I found both the old burrows and the new one entirely deserted , and I thought they had ...
... brought out great numbers of dead ants that the fumes of the carbolic acid had killed . A few days afterwards , when I visited the locality again , I found both the old burrows and the new one entirely deserted , and I thought they had ...
Page 80
... brought in . The chambers were always about three parts filled with a speckled brown , flocculent , spongy - looking mass of a light and loosely connected substance . Throughout these masses were numerous ants belonging to the smallest ...
... brought in . The chambers were always about three parts filled with a speckled brown , flocculent , spongy - looking mass of a light and loosely connected substance . Throughout these masses were numerous ants belonging to the smallest ...
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