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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Page 56
... travelling , I preferred them myself to bread made from wheaten flour . When well made and eaten warm , they are very palatable . There are a few small sugar plantations near Pital . The juice is pressed out of the canes by rude wooden ...
... travelling , I preferred them myself to bread made from wheaten flour . When well made and eaten warm , they are very palatable . There are a few small sugar plantations near Pital . The juice is pressed out of the canes by rude wooden ...
Page 57
... travelling round the same as in a thrashing - mill . The ungreased axles of the rollers , squeaking and screeching like a score of tormented pigs , generally inform the traveller of their vicinity long before he reaches them . The juice ...
... travelling round the same as in a thrashing - mill . The ungreased axles of the rollers , squeaking and screeching like a score of tormented pigs , generally inform the traveller of their vicinity long before he reaches them . The juice ...
Page 71
... travellers in tropical America have described the ravages of the leaf - cutting ants ( Ecodoma ) ; their crowded , well - worn paths through the forests , their ceaseless pertinacity in the spoliation of the trees - more particularly of ...
... travellers in tropical America have described the ravages of the leaf - cutting ants ( Ecodoma ) ; their crowded , well - worn paths through the forests , their ceaseless pertinacity in the spoliation of the trees - more particularly of ...
Page 72
... travelling for some hundreds of yards , often for more than half a mile , the formicarium is reached . consists of low , wide mounds of brown , clayey - looking earth , above and immediately around which the bushes have been killed by ...
... travelling for some hundreds of yards , often for more than half a mile , the formicarium is reached . consists of low , wide mounds of brown , clayey - looking earth , above and immediately around which the bushes have been killed by ...
Page 121
... travelling . Some- times solitary specimens of the pisoti are met with , hunting alone in the forest . I once saw one near Juigalpa , ascending tree after tree , and climbing every branch , apparently in search of birds ' nests . They ...
... travelling . Some- times solitary specimens of the pisoti are met with , hunting alone in the forest . I once saw one near Juigalpa , ascending tree after tree , and climbing every branch , apparently in search of birds ' nests . They ...
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