Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States and the Antilles ... 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 ...Macmillan and Company, 1879 - 520페이지 |
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... Vulture - Anhinga - Dangers of travel - Quartan ague 185-207 THIRD JOURNEY . CHAPTER I. From the Clyde to Demerara - Yellow fever - A deserted Plantation- Black John - Medicines for tropical climates - Bats - The lancet- Severe accident ...
... Vulture - Anhinga - Dangers of travel - Quartan ague 185-207 THIRD JOURNEY . CHAPTER I. From the Clyde to Demerara - Yellow fever - A deserted Plantation- Black John - Medicines for tropical climates - Bats - The lancet- Severe accident ...
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... Vultures and their food - Habits of Vultures - The Aura vulture - Black vultures -Severe blisters - An inquisitive Jaguar - Fish shooting - Goat- suckers and Campanero · 248-262 CHAPTER IV . Fishing for a Cayman - A shark - hook useless ...
... Vultures and their food - Habits of Vultures - The Aura vulture - Black vultures -Severe blisters - An inquisitive Jaguar - Fish shooting - Goat- suckers and Campanero · 248-262 CHAPTER IV . Fishing for a Cayman - A shark - hook useless ...
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... vultures , and apes at liberty . It was characteristic of Waterton that when he found himself at Hull , forty - four years after he started on his travels , he made inquiries about the captain of the ship in which he took his first ...
... vultures , and apes at liberty . It was characteristic of Waterton that when he found himself at Hull , forty - four years after he started on his travels , he made inquiries about the captain of the ship in which he took his first ...
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... Vulture where there is carrion . In passing up the river there was an opportunity of seeing a pair of the King of the Vultures ; they were sitting on the naked branch of a tree , with about a dozen of the common ones with them . A Tiger ...
... Vulture where there is carrion . In passing up the river there was an opportunity of seeing a pair of the King of the Vultures ; they were sitting on the naked branch of a tree , with about a dozen of the common ones with them . A Tiger ...
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... vultures had arrived that morning to claim the savoury morsel . At the close of day , the Vampires leave the hollow trees , whither they had fled at the morning's dawn , and scour along the river's banks in quest of prey . On waking ...
... vultures had arrived that morning to claim the savoury morsel . At the close of day , the Vampires leave the hollow trees , whither they had fled at the morning's dawn , and scour along the river's banks in quest of prey . On waking ...
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