This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... to be. They have ever cooked scones on the hot stones on an open-air fire, and here, as everywhere, we find more courage, as well as more resource, amongst the better class than amongst the poor, more accustomed to privations. As we stand under a little clump of wooding, the humming-birds are busy overhead amidst the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... to be. They have ever cooked scones on the hot stones on an open-air fire, and here, as everywhere, we find more courage, as well as more resource, amongst the better class than amongst the poor, more accustomed to privations. As we stand under a little clump of wooding, the humming-birds are busy overhead amidst the higher myrtles and the pendent bells of the gay copigiie, while below the dense plants of the quiscal, with their sharp serrated leaves, made it impossible to recover--if one saw--anything that fell to the ground. Four of us on one occasion hunted a small patch for a beautiful redbreasted loica (Sturnella militares), shot dead in presence of all, but in vain; and we had frequent experience of the almost impossibility of recovering birds in these lands. It was more than once suggested that they were carried off by rats (?) so soon as they got among the underwood; but although carnivorous rodents seem numerous, we cannot accept this explanation. Our steam-launch on another occasion got amongst a great shoal of sardines in this bay, and thither gathered a great array of the birds of the air and the water. Most prominent were the lines of great pelicans splashing into the water, and their graceless movements were compensated for by the flights of beautiful terns skimming all around, and speaking the same harsh tongue as if they were circling overhead amongst the waters of Loch Linnhe. The black cormorant is both common and unclean--at least, compared with the more powerful and elegant species alongside, with the beautiful fresh shirt-front on--or the still more beautiful but much rarer species with the white neck and red feet. The penguins are active as our own 'dookers, ' but how different in size! while a few of the swift and dashing solans mingl...
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Add this copy of Temperate Chile: a Progressive Spain to cart. $67.78, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
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