Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America, during the years 1799-1804, by A. von Humboldt and A. Bonpland, Volum 2 |
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Side 26
... travelling by night , on account of the excessive heat of the day . We passed by the hamlet of Punta Zamuro , at the foot of the high mountains of Las Viruelas . The road is bordered with large zamang - trees , or mimosas , the trunks ...
... travelling by night , on account of the excessive heat of the day . We passed by the hamlet of Punta Zamuro , at the foot of the high mountains of Las Viruelas . The road is bordered with large zamang - trees , or mimosas , the trunks ...
Side 27
... travellers even when he will not attack them ; the wolf in the open fields and in unsheltered places , the jaguar skirting the road and appearing only at intervals between the bushes . We passed the day on the 23rd in the house of the ...
... travellers even when he will not attack them ; the wolf in the open fields and in unsheltered places , the jaguar skirting the road and appearing only at intervals between the bushes . We passed the day on the 23rd in the house of the ...
Side 32
... traveller approaches the town , after passing the western extremity of the lake . It is a clayey soil , which has been levelled and abandoned by the waters . The neigh- bouring hills , called Los Morros de Valencia , are composed of ...
... traveller approaches the town , after passing the western extremity of the lake . It is a clayey soil , which has been levelled and abandoned by the waters . The neigh- bouring hills , called Los Morros de Valencia , are composed of ...
Side 42
... travellers . We found works of literature and natural history ; notes on meteorology ; skins of the jaguar and of large aquatic serpents ; live animals , monkeys , arma- dilloes , and birds . Our host was principal surgeon to the royal ...
... travellers . We found works of literature and natural history ; notes on meteorology ; skins of the jaguar and of large aquatic serpents ; live animals , monkeys , arma- dilloes , and birds . Our host was principal surgeon to the royal ...
Side 48
... traveller , a passage that seems to have some relation to the cow - tree . " There exist trees , " says Laet , * " in the province of Cu- " Inter arbores quæ sponte hic passim nascuntur , memorantur a scriptoribus Hispanis quædam quæ ...
... traveller , a passage that seems to have some relation to the cow - tree . " There exist trees , " says Laet , * " in the province of Cu- " Inter arbores quæ sponte hic passim nascuntur , memorantur a scriptoribus Hispanis quædam quæ ...
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