A Year in Brazil: With Notes on the Abolition of Slavery, the Finances of the Empire, Religion, Meteorology, Natural History, EtcK. Paul, Trench, 1886 - 444 pagini |
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Pagina xv
... ANIMALS , BIRDS , AND REPTILES . ... 341 Monkeys - Marmosets - Bats - Blood - sucking and fruit - eating habits of vampires - Capybara - P'aca - Coati - Ounces - Indian etymology-- Several species - Ocelot - Lobo , or wolf - Wolf ...
... ANIMALS , BIRDS , AND REPTILES . ... 341 Monkeys - Marmosets - Bats - Blood - sucking and fruit - eating habits of vampires - Capybara - P'aca - Coati - Ounces - Indian etymology-- Several species - Ocelot - Lobo , or wolf - Wolf ...
Pagina xvii
... perature at the Equator - Animal remains in caves - Refutation of glaciation - Thickness of gneiss in Brazil LIST OF BOOKS , ETC. , REFERRED TO INDEX PAGE 421 429 431 n LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . ENTRANCE TO THE BAY OF CONTENTS . xvii.
... perature at the Equator - Animal remains in caves - Refutation of glaciation - Thickness of gneiss in Brazil LIST OF BOOKS , ETC. , REFERRED TO INDEX PAGE 421 429 431 n LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . ENTRANCE TO THE BAY OF CONTENTS . xvii.
Pagina 16
... farms or holdings . The one town is named Sandy , and the only wild animals are the remnants of some Spanish bulls , which have now grown wild , and are hunted on horseback whenever they are found . There 16 A YEAR IN BRAZIL .
... farms or holdings . The one town is named Sandy , and the only wild animals are the remnants of some Spanish bulls , which have now grown wild , and are hunted on horseback whenever they are found . There 16 A YEAR IN BRAZIL .
Pagina 34
... animal . The weather by day is perfect - a cloudless sky generally all day , with very hot sun from nine till three , but a cool breeze , then freezing at night . A difference of some 80 ° to 90 ° Fahr . between the day and night is ...
... animal . The weather by day is perfect - a cloudless sky generally all day , with very hot sun from nine till three , but a cool breeze , then freezing at night . A difference of some 80 ° to 90 ° Fahr . between the day and night is ...
Pagina 41
... animals in the matter of affording them sweet music ( ! ) , they are fearfully cruel ; even on level ground the oxen are continually goaded , so that their bodies are a mass of wounds and sores , especially on the shoulders ; and when ...
... animals in the matter of affording them sweet music ( ! ) , they are fearfully cruel ; even on level ground the oxen are continually goaded , so that their bodies are a mass of wounds and sores , especially on the shoulders ; and when ...
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afternoon Antonio appears arrived August Bahia Barbacena beautiful Botafogo Brazil Brazilian breakfast breezes Brumado cachaça camp Carandahy Ceará church Cloudless day cloudy coffee cold cool Corcovado Dense mist dinner Dom Pedro II drizzle Dull Emancipation Entirely overcast Fabr fazenda feet five forest four garden Geography of Brazil hills horses Hübn hundred reis inches insects island João July June leaving length lightning Linn maize metres midday miles milreis Minas Geraes mist early morning Morro mountains natives night noon Organ Mountains Ouro Preto p.m. heavy Pará Paraopeba passed Pauillac Pedro Pernambuco Petropolis picturesque Pitanguy Portuguese priest province Queluz railway Rio de Janeiro river road round route São Paolo says Senhor Serra showers side slavery slaves species Sub-fam sunset sunshine tatu thermometer to-day told town trees valley walk
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Pagina 13 - MARKHAM, Capt. Albert Hastings, RN— The Great Frozen Sea : A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the Alert during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6.
Pagina 3 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Pagina 8 - Sister Dora : a Biography. By MARGARET LONSDALE. True "Words for Brave Men : a Book for Soldiers and Sailors. By the late CHARLES KINGSLEY. An Inland Voyage. By RL STEVENSON. Travels with a Donkey. By RL STEVENSON. HALF-CROWN SERIES — continued. Notes of Travel : being Extracts from the Journals of Count VON MOLTKE.
Pagina 24 - THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES. I. Forms of Water : a Familiar Exposition of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers. By J. Tyndall, LL.D., FRS With 25 Illustrations. Eighth Edition. Crown 8vo, 5^. II. Physics and Politics ; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection " and " Inheritance
Pagina 16 - Tadema, etched by Leopold Lowenstam. Edgar Allan Poe's Poems. With an Essay on his Poetry by ANDREW LANG, and a Frontispiece by Linley Sambourne. Shakspere's Sonnets. Edited by EDWARD DOWDEN. With a Frontispiece etched by Leopold Lowenstam, after the Death Mask.
Pagina 13 - The Medical Guide for Anglo-Indians. Being a Compendium of Advice to Europeans in India, relating to the Preservation and Regulation of Health. With a Supplement on the Management of Children in India. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. Limp cloth, price 3* . 6d, MALDEN (HE and EE) Princes and Princesses.
Pagina 17 - Genesis. By the Rev. T. WHITELAW, MA With Homilies by the Very Rev. JF MONTGOMERY, DD, Rev. Prof. RA REDFORD, MA, LL.B., Rev. F. HASTINGS, Rev.
Pagina 19 - Memoriam." (Dedicated by Permission to the Poet-Laureate.) Fcap. Svo, 2s. The Education of the Human Race. Translated from the German of GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING.
Pagina 7 - GLOVER, F., MA— Exempla Latina. A First Construing Book, with Short Notes, Lexicon, and an Introduction to the Analysis of Sentences. Second Edition. Fcap.
Pagina 1 - By C. KEGAN PAUL, MA Oxon., and the Rev. ED STONE, MA, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Assistant Master at Eton. Second and revised edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. BAYNES (Rev. Canon RH). At the Communion Time. A Manual for Holy Communion.