Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States and the Antilles: In the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824Macmillan, 1879 - 520 páginas |
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... canoes , and launch them into the river above ; and on their return bring them down the same way . FIRST JOURNEY . About two hours below this fall is the habitation of an Habitation Acoway chief called Sinkerman . At night you hear the ...
... canoes , and launch them into the river above ; and on their return bring them down the same way . FIRST JOURNEY . About two hours below this fall is the habitation of an Habitation Acoway chief called Sinkerman . At night you hear the ...
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... canoe over land from Sinkerman's to the Essequibo . There is a pretty good path , and meeting a creek about three - quarters of the way , it eases the labour , and twelve Indians will arrive with it in the Essequibo in four days . The ...
... canoe over land from Sinkerman's to the Essequibo . There is a pretty good path , and meeting a creek about three - quarters of the way , it eases the labour , and twelve Indians will arrive with it in the Essequibo in four days . The ...
Página 109
... canoe fairly afloat on the Essequibo . The new rigging it , and putting every little thing to rights and in its proper place , cannot well be done in less than a day . After being night and day in the forest impervious to the sun's and ...
... canoe fairly afloat on the Essequibo . The new rigging it , and putting every little thing to rights and in its proper place , cannot well be done in less than a day . After being night and day in the forest impervious to the sun's and ...
Página 110
... canoe , cut a passage through the branches , which hung over into the river , and then drag up the canoe by main force . At one place , the falls form an oblique line quite across FIRST the river , impassable to the ascending canoe ...
... canoe , cut a passage through the branches , which hung over into the river , and then drag up the canoe by main force . At one place , the falls form an oblique line quite across FIRST the river , impassable to the ascending canoe ...
Página 111
... canoe , and you are forced to have it dragged four or five hundred yards by JOURNEY . land . It will take you five days , from the Indian habitation , on the point of the island , to where these falls and rapids terminate . There are no ...
... canoe , and you are forced to have it dragged four or five hundred yards by JOURNEY . land . It will take you five days , from the Indian habitation , on the point of the island , to where these falls and rapids terminate . There are no ...
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amongst animal ant-bear appearance arrow bark beak beautiful betwixt bird body branch C. B. Brown called canoe cassava cassique Cayenne cayman Charles Waterton Chigoe close colour cotton creek Demerara Edmonstone eggs Essequibo fall feathers feet fish flesh forest goatsucker ground Guiana habits hammock hand head hole houtou humming-birds inches Indians insects Jabiru jacamar jaguar killed lake leaves legs look Macoushi monkey morning native naturalist nature nearly negro nest never night pain passed Peccary Pernambuco plumage poison procured quadrupeds rest river rocks savannas scarcely scarlet seems seen shot side skin sloth snake Society of Jesus soon species specimen spot Stabroek stone tail taxidermy thee THIRD JOURNEY thou Tinamou tion titmouse toucan traveller tree tribe vampire vulture Wallaba Wanderings Waterton wild wings wood wounded Wourali yards
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Página 292 - 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!
Página 226 - 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...
Página 19 - He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and passes his life in suspense like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop.
Página 181 - 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.
Página 251 - I now ranged the negroes behind me, and told him who stood next to me to lay hold of the lance the moment I struck the snake, and that the other must attend my movements. It now only remained to take their cutlasses from them, for I was sure, if I did not disarm them, they would be tempted to strike the snake in time of danger, and thus for ever spoil his skin.
Página 409 - THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW he north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then, Poor thing?
Página 177 - Though least in size, the glittering mantle of the humming-bird entitles it to the first place in the list of the birds of the new world. It may truly be called the bird of Paradise ; and had it existed in the old world, it would have claimed the title, instead of the bird which has now the honour to bear it. See it darting through the air almost as quick as thought ! — now it is within a yard of your face ! — in an instant gone ! — now it flutters from flower to flower, to sip the silverdew...
Página 217 - Some years ago I kept a sloth, in my room for several months. I often took him out of the house, and placed him upon the ground, in order to have an opportunity of observing his motions. If the ground were rough, he would pull himself forwards, by means of his fore legs, at a pretty good pace, and he invariably shaped his course towards the nearest tree. But if I put him upon a smooth and well-trodden part of the road, he appeared to be in trouble and distress : his favourite abode was the back of...
Página 251 - I judged by the folds of his body that it must be at the farthest side of his den. A species of woodbine had formed a complete mantle over the branches of the fallen tree, almost impervious to the rain or the rays of the sun. Probably he had resorted to this sequestered place for a length of time, as it bore marks of an ancient settlement.
Página 134 - The arrow is from nine to ten inches long; it is made out of the leaf of a palm-tree, and pointed as sharp as a needle : about an inch of the pointed end is poisoned : the other end is burnt to make it still harder ; and wild cotton is put round it for an inch and a half.