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... called , in Minas Geraes , is the largest kind of serpent in Brazil , at least in the above - mentioned countries ; there are many errors in the descriptions given of it by naturalists . Daudin has mention it by the name of boa anacondo ...
... called , in Minas Geraes , is the largest kind of serpent in Brazil , at least in the above - mentioned countries ; there are many errors in the descriptions given of it by naturalists . Daudin has mention it by the name of boa anacondo ...
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... called Puris . St. Fidelis was a village selected for a mission , about thirty years ago , by some Ca- puchin friars from Italy ; and one of the holy fathers still lives there . The Indians inhabiting this place belong to the tribes of ...
... called Puris . St. Fidelis was a village selected for a mission , about thirty years ago , by some Ca- puchin friars from Italy ; and one of the holy fathers still lives there . The Indians inhabiting this place belong to the tribes of ...
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... called mono ( ateles ) fastened round their brows , and we observed also a few who had cut off their hair quite close . The women carried their little children partly in bandages made of bass , which were fastened over the right ...
... called mono ( ateles ) fastened round their brows , and we observed also a few who had cut off their hair quite close . The women carried their little children partly in bandages made of bass , which were fastened over the right ...
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... called with an elegant and happy similitude , the " camel of the vegetable world . " Naturalists yet hesitate concerning the source of its supply in those torrid regions , where the air and the earth are equally destitute of moisture ...
... called with an elegant and happy similitude , the " camel of the vegetable world . " Naturalists yet hesitate concerning the source of its supply in those torrid regions , where the air and the earth are equally destitute of moisture ...
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... called Taquarussa , or the great cane . It grows from thirty to forty feet high : its colossal stems , which are as much as six inches in diame- ter , shoot upwards , and have a gentle bend at the top ; the leaves are feathery ; and on ...
... called Taquarussa , or the great cane . It grows from thirty to forty feet high : its colossal stems , which are as much as six inches in diame- ter , shoot upwards , and have a gentle bend at the top ; the leaves are feathery ; and on ...
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