Notes of a Naturalist in South AmericaK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 416 pagini |
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... ground floor , several spacious and airy sitting - rooms opened on a broad verandah that ran round the building , and a number of fine trees close at hand , with the dense impervious foliage characteristic of the tropics , offered the ...
... ground floor , several spacious and airy sitting - rooms opened on a broad verandah that ran round the building , and a number of fine trees close at hand , with the dense impervious foliage characteristic of the tropics , offered the ...
Pagina 15
... ground with sheds or huts ; but beyond the distance of a few miles these ceased , and no token of the presence of man was discernible . Making large allowance for exaggeration , and having had the opportunity of correcting some loose ...
... ground with sheds or huts ; but beyond the distance of a few miles these ceased , and no token of the presence of man was discernible . Making large allowance for exaggeration , and having had the opportunity of correcting some loose ...
Pagina 17
... ground or garden . As the dry season was not yet over , the country here looked parched ; but I saw many trees and shrubs new to me , many of them laden with flowers , and found it hard to keep my resolution not C to stop the carriage ...
... ground or garden . As the dry season was not yet over , the country here looked parched ; but I saw many trees and shrubs new to me , many of them laden with flowers , and found it hard to keep my resolution not C to stop the carriage ...
Pagina 26
... ground , are all there , but they are not in their right places . The house has somehow got to the wrong side of the torrent , or the peak rises on the right of the tree instead of the left . A picture vividly retained GRAND HOTEL OF ...
... ground , are all there , but they are not in their right places . The house has somehow got to the wrong side of the torrent , or the peak rises on the right of the tree instead of the left . A picture vividly retained GRAND HOTEL OF ...
Pagina 27
... ground floor , with several large rooms , is occupied day and night for eating , drinking , smoking , and loud discussion by the floating foreign population of the town . At the present time the engineers and other officials con- nected ...
... ground floor , with several large rooms , is occupied day and night for eating , drinking , smoking , and loud discussion by the floating foreign population of the town . At the present time the engineers and other officials con- nected ...
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