My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 197
... forests of the Amazon in order to observe nature and make a living by collecting . All this may have been pure chance , as I long thought it was , but of late years I am more inclined to Hamlet's belief , when he said- " There's a ...
... forests of the Amazon in order to observe nature and make a living by collecting . All this may have been pure chance , as I long thought it was , but of late years I am more inclined to Hamlet's belief , when he said- " There's a ...
Page 246
... forest of Brecon , with its series of isolated summits or vans , more than two thousand feet high , and culminating in the re- markable twin summits of the Brecknock Beacons , which reach over twenty - nine hundred feet . Within a four ...
... forest of Brecon , with its series of isolated summits or vans , more than two thousand feet high , and culminating in the re- markable twin summits of the Brecknock Beacons , which reach over twenty - nine hundred feet . Within a four ...
Page 267
... Forest , which I had often wished to visit . At length , everything being ready , and our date of sailing being fixed for April 20 , we left Leicester by coach a few days before that date , and stayed , I think , at Bakewell , in order ...
... Forest , which I had often wished to visit . At length , everything being ready , and our date of sailing being fixed for April 20 , we left Leicester by coach a few days before that date , and stayed , I think , at Bakewell , in order ...
Page 269
... forest , ex- tending uninterruptedly many hundreds and even , in some directions , thousands of miles into the interior . The climate is beautiful . We are now at the commencement of the dry season . It rains generally for an hour or ...
... forest , ex- tending uninterruptedly many hundreds and even , in some directions , thousands of miles into the interior . The climate is beautiful . We are now at the commencement of the dry season . It rains generally for an hour or ...
Page 270
... forest I looked about , expecting to see monkeys as plentiful as at the Zoological Gardens , with humming - birds and parrots in profusion . But for several days I did not see a single monkey , and hardly a bird of any kind , and I ...
... forest I looked about , expecting to see monkeys as plentiful as at the Zoological Gardens , with humming - birds and parrots in profusion . But for several days I did not see a single monkey , and hardly a bird of any kind , and I ...
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