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 16
... live in . Mr. Bertrand says that when he arrives ( about July 15th ) it will be the middle of winter , with snow and ice everywhere . It is at least thirty days from England — a bad voyage is six weeks . It has no trees , no wheat or ...
... live in . Mr. Bertrand says that when he arrives ( about July 15th ) it will be the middle of winter , with snow and ice everywhere . It is at least thirty days from England — a bad voyage is six weeks . It has no trees , no wheat or ...
Stranica 45
... live with some other Englishmen in a boarding - house on this hill , which commands one of the finest views of the Bay of Rio that is to be seen from any inhabited spot . We climbed about a little in the afternoon , but the heat was ...
... live with some other Englishmen in a boarding - house on this hill , which commands one of the finest views of the Bay of Rio that is to be seen from any inhabited spot . We climbed about a little in the afternoon , but the heat was ...
Stranica 52
... lives here with her two sons - fine lads of sixteen and seventeen ; the latter manage the whole work of the farm . They grow sugar - cane , maize ( milho ) , and mandioca , and have also a large garden full of orange trees , whence we ...
... lives here with her two sons - fine lads of sixteen and seventeen ; the latter manage the whole work of the farm . They grow sugar - cane , maize ( milho ) , and mandioca , and have also a large garden full of orange trees , whence we ...
Stranica 53
... live specimen which had been caught with a young one in a neighbouring wood , where they abound . The paca is a rodent ( Cælogenus fulvus , Cram . ) , striped very prettily with fawn colour and white , about the size of a small pig ...
... live specimen which had been caught with a young one in a neighbouring wood , where they abound . The paca is a rodent ( Cælogenus fulvus , Cram . ) , striped very prettily with fawn colour and white , about the size of a small pig ...
Stranica 58
... some time later the portrait of an old negress who lives at Pitanguy , named Joanna Maria , who is 127 years old , and still does everything for herself . hot in the cloudless sky . Reaching the summit of 58 A YEAR IN BRAZIL .
... some time later the portrait of an old negress who lives at Pitanguy , named Joanna Maria , who is 127 years old , and still does everything for herself . hot in the cloudless sky . Reaching the summit of 58 A YEAR IN BRAZIL .
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