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 27
... crossing a water - course along a small branch , not thicker than a goose - quill . They widened this natural bridge to three times its width by a number of ants clinging to it and to each other on each side , over which the column ...
... crossing a water - course along a small branch , not thicker than a goose - quill . They widened this natural bridge to three times its width by a number of ants clinging to it and to each other on each side , over which the column ...
Page 28
... crossing of difficult places , assisting each in danger , defending their nests at the risk of their own lives , communicating information rapidly to a great distance , making a regular division of work , the whole community taking ...
... crossing of difficult places , assisting each in danger , defending their nests at the risk of their own lives , communicating information rapidly to a great distance , making a regular division of work , the whole community taking ...
Page 45
... crossed some rocky low hills , with scanty vegetation , and , after passing the cattle hacienda of San José , reached the plains of the same name , about two leagues in width , now dry and dusty , but in the wet season forming a great ...
... crossed some rocky low hills , with scanty vegetation , and , after passing the cattle hacienda of San José , reached the plains of the same name , about two leagues in width , now dry and dusty , but in the wet season forming a great ...
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... crossing the plains we rode over undulating hills , here called savannahs , with patches of forest on the rising ground , and small plains on which grows the ternate - leaved jicara ( pronounced hickory ) , a tree about as large as an ...
... crossing the plains we rode over undulating hills , here called savannahs , with patches of forest on the rising ground , and small plains on which grows the ternate - leaved jicara ( pronounced hickory ) , a tree about as large as an ...
Page 48
... crossing it came in sight of the town of Acoyapo , one of the principal towns of the pro- vince of Chontales . We stayed and had dinner with Senhor Don Dolores Bermudez , a Nicaraguan gentleman Ch . IV . ] COCK - FIGHTING . 49 48 [ Ch ...
... crossing it came in sight of the town of Acoyapo , one of the principal towns of the pro- vince of Chontales . We stayed and had dinner with Senhor Don Dolores Bermudez , a Nicaraguan gentleman Ch . IV . ] COCK - FIGHTING . 49 48 [ Ch ...
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