This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...about the rooms. Our Maracana used to accompany us sometimes in our rambles, one of the lads carrying it on his head. One day, in the middle of a long forest road, it was missed, having clung probably to an overhanging bough and escaped into the thicket without the boy perceiving it. Three hours afterwards, on our ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...about the rooms. Our Maracana used to accompany us sometimes in our rambles, one of the lads carrying it on his head. One day, in the middle of a long forest road, it was missed, having clung probably to an overhanging bough and escaped into the thicket without the boy perceiving it. Three hours afterwards, on our return by the same 30 path, a voice greeted us in a colloquial tone as we passed: "Maracana!" We looked about for some time, but could not see anything, until the word was repeated with emphasis: "Maracana!" Then we espied the little truant half concealed in the foliage of a tree. He came down and delivered himself up, evidently as much rejoiced at the meeting as we were. While exploring the low and swampy tract along the coast to the north of Santa Cruz, we surprised a large flock, composed of about fifty individuals, of a curious Photo hy F. 0. Howes. By kind permission of the New York Zoological Society YOUNG PARROTS. eagle with a very long and slender hooked beak. They were perched on the bushes that surrounded a shallow lagoon, separated from the river by a belt of floating 10 grass; my men said they fed on toads and lizards found at the margins of pools. They formed a beautiful sight as they flew up and wheeled about at a great height in the air. Turkeys While staying at the house of a settler on the Cuparf, a branch of the Tapajos, we were amused at the excessive and almost absurd tameness of a turkey, that ran about the house. It was a large glossy-black species, having This is Santa Cruz on the Tapajos. an orange-coloured beak, surmounted by a bean-shaped excrescence of the same hue. It seemed to consider itself as one of the family; attended at all meals, passing from one person to another round the mat to be fed, and...
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Good. 6" x 9" Text clean & bright; binding tight; moderate wear to covers. 424 pages. Illustrated. Originally published in 1863, Bates' story is a standard in Amazon history.
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