Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824: With Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. for Cabinets of Natural HistoryB. Fellowes, 1836 - 341페이지 |
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amongst animal ant-bear appearance beasts beautiful betwixt bird blood blow-pipe blue body branch Brazil called canoe cassava cassique Cayenne cayman CHARLES WATERTON close colour cotton creek Daddy Quashi Demerara dissect Edmonstone Essequibo fall feathers feet forest FOURTH JOURNEY gentle reader ground Guiana hammock hand haunts head hills hour houtou humming-birds inches Indian insects island Jabiru jacamar jaguar killed leave legs look Macoushi mandible merara monkey morning naturalist nature negro nest never night once pain passing Pernambuco plumage poisoned arrow Portuguese Preserving quadrupeds rest river rocks savannas scarlet SECOND JOURNEY seems seen side skin sloth snake Society of Jesus soon species specimen Stabroek stick stranger tail thee thing THIRD JOURNEY thou Tinamou tion toucan traveller trees Troupiale vampire vulture walk wallaba wanders wilds wings wish wood wound wourali poison
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180 페이지 - The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing. But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
265 페이지 - Her bloom was like the springing flower, That sips the silver dew; The rose was budded in her cheek, Just opening to the view. But love had, like the canker-worm, Consumed her early prime; The rose grew pale, and left her cheek — She died before her time. Awake!
27 페이지 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
214 페이지 - One negro supported the belly, and the other the tail. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it after resting ten times ; for the snake was too heavy for us to support him without stopping to recruit our strength. As we proceeded onwards with him, he fought hard for freedom; but it was all in vain.
145 페이지 - Suppose yourself in hopeless sorrow, begin with a high loud note, and pronounce, ' ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,' each note lower and lower, till the last is scarcely heard, pausing a moment or two betwixt every note, and you will have some idea of the moaning of the largest goat-sucker in Demerara.
263 페이지 - The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir, that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
121 페이지 - You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute, then another toll, and then a pause again, and then a toll, and again a pause. Then he is silent for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on.
166 페이지 - It mostly happens that Indians and Negroes are the people who catch the Sloth, and bring it to the white man ; hence it may be conjectured that the erroneous accounts we have hitherto had of the Sloth, have not been penned down with the slightest intention to mislead the reader, or give him an exaggerated history, but that these errors have naturally arisen by examining the Sloth in those places where nature never intended that he should be exhibited. However, we are now in his own domain. Man but...
217 페이지 - ... on at me, with his head about a yard from the ground, as if to ask me what business I had to take liberties with his tail. I let him come, hissing and open-mouthed, within two feet of my face, and then, with all the force I was master of, I drove my fist, shielded by my hat, full in his jaws. He was stunned and confounded by the blow, and ere he could recover himself, I had seized his throat with both hands, in such a position that he could not bite me ; I then allowed him to coil himself round...
166 페이지 - ... upper element. He is a scarce and solitary animal, and, being good food, he is never allowed to escape. He inhabits remote and gloomy forests, where snakes take up their abode, and where cruelly stinging ants and scorpions, and swamps, and innumerable thorny shrubs and bushes, obstruct the steps of civilized man.