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 89
... showers . The minimum that night was 56 ° . The day was a mixture of English spring and autumn . By 3.30 in the afternoon , the rain was so heavy that I was compelled to give up work . What do you think becomes of all the stamps off ...
... showers . The minimum that night was 56 ° . The day was a mixture of English spring and autumn . By 3.30 in the afternoon , the rain was so heavy that I was compelled to give up work . What do you think becomes of all the stamps off ...
Stranica 121
... shower , while at ten the rain came down in right earnest , vertically and by bucketfuls , so we were obliged , after trying a little longer , to return in a drowned - rat condition to the IN THE VALLEY OF THE RIO CAMAPUÃO . 121.
... shower , while at ten the rain came down in right earnest , vertically and by bucketfuls , so we were obliged , after trying a little longer , to return in a drowned - rat condition to the IN THE VALLEY OF THE RIO CAMAPUÃO . 121.
Stranica 131
... showers soon became settled rain , which fell with scarcely any intermission the whole day . It was fearful work . We were engaged setting out lines through dense forests , mata virgem , capoeira , and undergrowths , on steep side ...
... showers soon became settled rain , which fell with scarcely any intermission the whole day . It was fearful work . We were engaged setting out lines through dense forests , mata virgem , capoeira , and undergrowths , on steep side ...
Stranica 132
... showers at every step ; every stitch on me soaking wet , above my waist from perspiration , below with rain ; my hands scratched and dotted over with many thorns ; my long porpoise - hide boots wheezing and squeaking with the water in ...
... showers at every step ; every stitch on me soaking wet , above my waist from perspiration , below with rain ; my hands scratched and dotted over with many thorns ; my long porpoise - hide boots wheezing and squeaking with the water in ...
Stranica 133
... showers , and then hang them out again ( on the poles we have had erected for that purpose ) when the showers had passed . I know nothing more trying and irksome than this sort of occupation , when one is endeavouring to write or read ...
... showers , and then hang them out again ( on the poles we have had erected for that purpose ) when the showers had passed . I know nothing more trying and irksome than this sort of occupation , when one is endeavouring to write or read ...
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