Notes of a Naturalist in South AmericaK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 416 pagini |
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... carried away the covering of her engine - room , stove in the chief officer's cabin , and severely injured her com- mander , Captain Woolward . On this occasion our voyage was easy and prosperous , and nothing occurred to test severely ...
... carried away the covering of her engine - room , stove in the chief officer's cabin , and severely injured her com- mander , Captain Woolward . On this occasion our voyage was easy and prosperous , and nothing occurred to test severely ...
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... carried one away , which , after my return to Europe , I placed in a small wooden box in my herbarium . Some nine months after it had been collected it must have exploded in my absence , for , unlocking the room one day , I found the ...
... carried one away , which , after my return to Europe , I placed in a small wooden box in my herbarium . Some nine months after it had been collected it must have exploded in my absence , for , unlocking the room one day , I found the ...
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... Bridgetown that morning , and as we halted two carriages passed , carrying the bridal party to some house in the country . All the inhabitants rushed out PEL UNIVIS CAUSES OF PROSPERITY CA . 13 at once 12 NOTES OF A NATURALIST .
... Bridgetown that morning , and as we halted two carriages passed , carrying the bridal party to some house in the country . All the inhabitants rushed out PEL UNIVIS CAUSES OF PROSPERITY CA . 13 at once 12 NOTES OF A NATURALIST .
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... carried away by the August hurricanes . The interiors appeared to be fairly clean , and in a country where cold is unknown good houses are luxuries , not neces- saries of life . One need not go far to seek the explanation of the ...
... carried away by the August hurricanes . The interiors appeared to be fairly clean , and in a country where cold is unknown good houses are luxuries , not neces- saries of life . One need not go far to seek the explanation of the ...
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... carried in a nearly straight line through the forest and over the hills that lie on the western side near to Panama . This clearing does not appear a very serious undertaking , but in a region where the energy of vegetation is so ...
... carried in a nearly straight line through the forest and over the hills that lie on the western side near to Panama . This clearing does not appear a very serious undertaking , but in a region where the energy of vegetation is so ...
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