Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... the cries of his master , flew to the spot , armed with a long knife ( machete ) , and plunged into the river . He forced the crocodile , by putting out his eyes , to let go his prey and to NATIVE SANG - FROID . 5 plunge under the water.
... the cries of his master , flew to the spot , armed with a long knife ( machete ) , and plunged into the river . He forced the crocodile , by putting out his eyes , to let go his prey and to NATIVE SANG - FROID . 5 plunge under the water.
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Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland Thomasina Ross. NATIVE SANG - FROID . 5 plunge under the water . The slave bore his expiring master to the shore ; but all succour was unavailing to restore him to life . He had died of suffocation ...
Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland Thomasina Ross. NATIVE SANG - FROID . 5 plunge under the water . The slave bore his expiring master to the shore ; but all succour was unavailing to restore him to life . He had died of suffocation ...
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... native of Syria . He passed thirty - seven years in mystic contemplation , on five pillars , the last of which was thirty - six cubits high . The sancti columnares attempted ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA . 9 another place that the mauritia palm.
... native of Syria . He passed thirty - seven years in mystic contemplation , on five pillars , the last of which was thirty - six cubits high . The sancti columnares attempted ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA . 9 another place that the mauritia palm.
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... natives , therefore , as have lived beneath the misty sky of the Esmeralda and the Atabapo , know , without the smallest notion of natural philosophy , what Eudoxus and Eratosthenes knew hereto- fore , that the inundations of the great ...
... natives , therefore , as have lived beneath the misty sky of the Esmeralda and the Atabapo , know , without the smallest notion of natural philosophy , what Eudoxus and Eratosthenes knew hereto- fore , that the inundations of the great ...
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... native population . Con- centered on a small space of land , these monks have the consciousness of their political importance , and have from time to time resisted the civil authority , and that of their bishop . The governors who ...
... native population . Con- centered on a small space of land , these monks have the consciousness of their political importance , and have from time to time resisted the civil authority , and that of their bishop . The governors who ...
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