A Year in Brazil: With Notes on the Abolition of Slavery, the Finances of the Empire, Religion, Meteorology, Natural History, EtcK. Paul, Trench, 1886 - Broj stranica: 444 |
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Stranica xii
... Heavy rain - Traffic begins on high roads - Death and funeral of the Major do Cortume - Requiem Mass - Native cookery -The dinner - hour - Spring - time - Voracious ants - Fine nights— Grandiloquent names - Casa Grande - Life in a ...
... Heavy rain - Traffic begins on high roads - Death and funeral of the Major do Cortume - Requiem Mass - Native cookery -The dinner - hour - Spring - time - Voracious ants - Fine nights— Grandiloquent names - Casa Grande - Life in a ...
Stranica 19
... verdure and tropical forest . Looking through the entrance , the eye is arrested by the faint fantastic outline . of the Organ Mountains , some eight thousand feet high , rising above a heavy belt of snow - white clouds ( 19 )
... verdure and tropical forest . Looking through the entrance , the eye is arrested by the faint fantastic outline . of the Organ Mountains , some eight thousand feet high , rising above a heavy belt of snow - white clouds ( 19 )
Stranica 20
... heavy belt of snow - white clouds some sixty miles away . We approach the bay , and the gaunt pyramidal Sugar - loaf ( Pão d'Assucar , 1363 feet ) towers above us , the gentler slopes of the huge cone are covered with trees , while the ...
... heavy belt of snow - white clouds some sixty miles away . We approach the bay , and the gaunt pyramidal Sugar - loaf ( Pão d'Assucar , 1363 feet ) towers above us , the gentler slopes of the huge cone are covered with trees , while the ...
Stranica 51
... heavy dew , and , worse still , without food . We determined to go straight on , and began to descend . In a quarter of an hour we were much relieved to descry a light shining through the deepening darkness , and approaching , we came ...
... heavy dew , and , worse still , without food . We determined to go straight on , and began to descend . In a quarter of an hour we were much relieved to descry a light shining through the deepening darkness , and approaching , we came ...
Stranica 55
... railings , but the footway was in a very dangerous condition , and we hardly dared to go over it . At midday a very heavy storm came on , so we were obliged to seek refuge in a roadside farm , where only RIDE UP COUNTRY . 55.
... railings , but the footway was in a very dangerous condition , and we hardly dared to go over it . At midday a very heavy storm came on , so we were obliged to seek refuge in a roadside farm , where only RIDE UP COUNTRY . 55.
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