Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World: Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.Harper & brothers, 1846 - 351페이지 |
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animals appearance Azara Bahia Blanca Banda Oriental Beagle beds birds bizcacha body bones Buenos Ayres Cape Captain Fitz Roy Capybara cardoon cattle Chile cliffs climate coast colour common Cordillera curious distance dogs eggs estancia extinct extreme feet forest Fuegians Gauchos genus guanaco habits head heard hills horse hundred inch Indians inhabitants insects islands Jemmy Button killed kind land lazo legs living Macrauchenia Maldonado miles Monte Video morning mountain mouth nearly nest never niata night observed ostrich Pampas Parana party passed Patagonia plain plants Plata Port Desire posta probably quadrupeds remarkable resembles riding Rio Negro river rock Rosas round salt scarcely seen shells shore side soon South America species spider stones Strait of Magellan stream surface Tierra del Fuego tion told trees tribe valley vegetation Voyage whole wild yards
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299 페이지 - a last and long farewell, as the ship stood on her course into the open sea. The perfect equality among the individuals composing the Fuegian tribes must for a/ long time retard their civilization. As. we see those animals, * Captain Sulivan, who, since his voyage
14 페이지 - by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants, the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage, but, above all, the general luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration. A most
312 페이지 - ing weed. The good service it thus affords to vessels navigating near this stormy land is evident; and it certainly has saved many a one from being wrecked. I know few things more surprising than to see this plant growing and flourishing amidst those great breakers of the Western Ocean, which no mass of rock, let it be ever
220 페이지 - which the caves occur; and the extinct species are much more numerous than those now living: there are fossil ant-eaters, armadilloes, tapirs, peccaries, guanacos, opossums, and numerous South American gnawers and monkeys, and other ^animals. This wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living, will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on
127 페이지 - but at the other is terminated by a vermiform fleshy appendage. The stony axis which gives strength to the stem may be traced at this extremity into a mere vessel filled with granular matter. At low water hundreds of these zoophytes might be seen, projecting like stubble, with the truncate end upwards, a few inches above
131 페이지 - in the morning the ambassadors were to Every one here is fully convinced that this is the most just war, because it is against barbarians. Who would believe in this age that such atrocities could be committed in a Christian civilized country 1 The children of the Indians are saved, to be sold or
296 페이지 - and thought to pass a quiet night, the odious word " yammerschooner" has shrilly sounded from some gloomy nook, and then the little signal-smoke has curled up to spread the news far and wide. On leaving some place we have said to each other, " Thank Heaven, we have at last fairly left these wretches!
213 페이지 - of the St. Cruz, in certain circumscribed spaces, which were generally bushy and all near the river, the ground was actually white with bones. On one such spot I counted between ten and twenty heads. I particularly examined the bones ; they did not appear as some scattered ones which I had
306 페이지 - was the wood, that it was necessary to have constant recourse to the compass ; for every landmark, though in a mountainous country, was completely shut out. In the deep ravines, the death-like scene of desolation exceeded all description; outside it was blowing a gale, but in these hollows not even a breath
27 페이지 - was therefore fortunate in being present when one (Desmodus d'orbignyi, Wat.) was actually caught on a horse's back. We' were bivouacking late one evening near Coquimbo, in Chile, when my servant, noticingthat one of the horses was very restive, went to see what was the matter, and fancying he could distinguish something, suddenly put his hand on the