Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the WorldJ.M. Dent & Company, 1908 - Всего страниц: 496 |
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... Horses - Bolas - Partridges and Foxes - Features of the Country - Long - legged Plover - Teru - tero - Hailstorm - Natural En- closures in the Sierra Tapalguen - Flesh of Puma - Meat Diet - Guardia del Monte - Effects of Cattle on the ...
... Horses - Bolas - Partridges and Foxes - Features of the Country - Long - legged Plover - Teru - tero - Hailstorm - Natural En- closures in the Sierra Tapalguen - Flesh of Puma - Meat Diet - Guardia del Monte - Effects of Cattle on the ...
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... Horses broken - in , Gauchos Riding - Character of Inhabitants -Rio Plata - Flocks of Butterflies - Aëronaut Spiders - Phosphor- escence of the Sea - Port Desire - Guanaco - Port St. Julian - Geology of Patagonia - Fossil gigantic ...
... Horses broken - in , Gauchos Riding - Character of Inhabitants -Rio Plata - Flocks of Butterflies - Aëronaut Spiders - Phosphor- escence of the Sea - Port Desire - Guanaco - Port St. Julian - Geology of Patagonia - Fossil gigantic ...
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... horses are fed . On first arriving , it was our custom to unsaddle the horses and give them their Indian corn ; then , with a low bow , to ask the senhôr to do us the favour to give us some- thing to eat . Any thing you choose , sir ...
... horses are fed . On first arriving , it was our custom to unsaddle the horses and give them their Indian corn ; then , with a low bow , to ask the senhôr to do us the favour to give us some- thing to eat . Any thing you choose , sir ...
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... horses , only cost 2s . 6d . per head . Yet the host of this vênda , being asked if he knew any thing of a whip which one of the party had lost , gruffly answered , " How should I know ? why did you not take care of it ? -I suppose the ...
... horses , only cost 2s . 6d . per head . Yet the host of this vênda , being asked if he knew any thing of a whip which one of the party had lost , gruffly answered , " How should I know ? why did you not take care of it ? -I suppose the ...
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... horse's back . We were bivouacking late one even- ing near Coquimbo , in Chile , when my servant , noticing that one of the horses was very restive , went to see what was the matter , and fancying he could distinguish some- thing ...
... horse's back . We were bivouacking late one even- ing near Coquimbo , in Chile , when my servant , noticing that one of the horses was very restive , went to see what was the matter , and fancying he could distinguish some- thing ...
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animals appearance archipelago atolls Bahia Blanca barrier-reefs Beagle Beagle Channel believe birds boat Buenos Ayres Cape Captain Fitz Roy capybara cattle Chile Chiloe climate coast colour common Copiapó coral Cordillera covered curious distance earthquake elevation extremely Falkland Islands feet forest formed Fuegians Galapagos Gauchos genus greater number ground guanaco habits head heard height hills horses hundred Indians inhabitants insects island islets Jemmy Button killed kind land living manner mass miles morning mountains natives nearly never night observed ocean Pampas party passed Patagonia plain plants Plata probably quadrupeds Quillota rain reef remarkable resemble Rio Negro river road rock salt scarcely seen shells shore side snow South America southern species spot stones Strait of Magellan stream summit surface thick Tierra del Fuego trees tribe valley vegetation Voyage whole wild wind wood
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Стр. 316 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Стр. 365 - Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.
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Стр. 441 - Yet these low, insignificant coral islets stand, and are victorious; for here another power, as an antagonist, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and unite them into a symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments, yet what will that tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month...
Стр. 65 - The deathlike stillness of the plain, the dogs keeping watch, the gipsy-group of Gauchos making their beds round the fire, have left in my mind a stronglymarked picture of this first night, which will never be forgotten. The next day the country continued similar to that above described.
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Стр. 485 - Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover how many truly kind-hearted people there are with whom he never before had, or ever again will have, any further communication, who yet are ready to offer him the most disinterested assistance.
Стр. 229 - I can only compare these great aquatic forests of the southern hemisphere, with the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions.
Стр. 412 - I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place.
Стр. 1 - The scene, as beheld through the hazy atmosphere of this climate, is one of great interest, — if indeed a person fresh from sea, and who has just walked for the first time in a grove of cocoa-nut trees, can be a judge of anything but his own happiness.