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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... Native cookery -The dinner - hour - Spring - time - Voracious ants - Fine nights— Grandiloquent names - Casa Grande - Life in a native house Musical evenings ... ... 89 CHAPTER VII . IN THE VALLEY OF THE RIO CAMAPUÃO . My horse falls ...
... Native cookery -The dinner - hour - Spring - time - Voracious ants - Fine nights— Grandiloquent names - Casa Grande - Life in a native house Musical evenings ... ... 89 CHAPTER VII . IN THE VALLEY OF THE RIO CAMAPUÃO . My horse falls ...
Stranica xiv
... Native measures - Long measure Square measure - Cubic measure - Wine measure - Avoirdupois - Diamond weights - Gold weights . Notes on the Decimal System ... ... 296 299 ... 300 COINAGE AND CURRENCY . PAGE Scarcity of silver ...
... Native measures - Long measure Square measure - Cubic measure - Wine measure - Avoirdupois - Diamond weights - Gold weights . Notes on the Decimal System ... ... 296 299 ... 300 COINAGE AND CURRENCY . PAGE Scarcity of silver ...
Stranica 16
... natives of the British Isles , except a few foreign servants and herdsmen from South America . Sheep - raising is really the only occupation . The sheep are killed for their skins , and melted down for tallow , the meat being wasted ...
... natives of the British Isles , except a few foreign servants and herdsmen from South America . Sheep - raising is really the only occupation . The sheep are killed for their skins , and melted down for tallow , the meat being wasted ...
Stranica 24
... native sugar , which is pale yellow and fine as flour . We left Rio at 5 a.m. punctually , and are now proceeding by the Estrada de Ferro Dom Pedro II . — the principal state railway — to the extreme northern limit of the line , which ...
... native sugar , which is pale yellow and fine as flour . We left Rio at 5 a.m. punctually , and are now proceeding by the Estrada de Ferro Dom Pedro II . — the principal state railway — to the extreme northern limit of the line , which ...
Stranica 35
... native as my guide , I rode along towards Brumado , taking observations all the way with aneroid and compass to enable me to prepare a sketch map on my return , and indicate the best route ( approximately ) for the railway . We put up ...
... native as my guide , I rode along towards Brumado , taking observations all the way with aneroid and compass to enable me to prepare a sketch map on my return , and indicate the best route ( approximately ) for the railway . We put up ...
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