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id: 25888
title: Edge of the Jungle
author: Beebe, William
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  Across my doorstep a line of leaf-cutting ants was passing, each water receded slowly, and strange little things floated past had the jungle-life come past Hope''s unseeing eyes and found the tiny pool, the water lined with ant handrails, and in shallow places, white-headed workers, while the smaller ants transported small eggs paths of life from some new temporary nest deep in the jungle. water, then slowly taken a new reach upward and stretched forth great things, the wonderful emerald of my great tree-frog of last year came laboratory and rested quietly--a great queen of the leaf-cutting Attas somewhere in its heart a thread of ant-life; finally, two little that every ant that went out, cut his tiny bit of leaf, and returned, an enormous nest of Attas--the leaf-cutting ants of the British Up through mud and black trench-water came the leaf, like a tiny fist


id: 8159
title: Wanderings in South America
author: Waterton, Charles
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  of the river are at a place called Saba, from the Indian word which The trees which form these far-extending wilds are as useful as they At the close of day the vampires leave the hollow trees, whither they The day after passing the place where the white man lived you see a This is the place you ought to have come to two days ago, had the water One day, on asking an Indian if he thought the poison would kill a man, hard day''s walk, an Indian got his bow ready and let fly a poisoned the place a large tree had fallen into the river, and in the meantime Wherever there is a wild fig-tree ripe, a numerous species of birds On all the ripe fig-trees in the forest you see the bird called the bird; he will stand for hours together on the branch of a tree, or on


id: 34579
title: Bees from British Guiana Bulletin of the AMNH, Vol. XXXVIII, Art. XX, pp. 685-690
author: Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison)
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  4. Hind margins of abdominal segments broadly black. _Euglossa decorata ruficauda_, new variety; female--K. _Euglossa decorata ruficauda_, new variety; male. Abdomen without black bands _Xylocopa fimbriala_ (Fabricius). Wasp-like bee, with fusiform abdomen, reddish wings and red red, the others black; female abdomen sharply pointed. Abdomen clear ferruginous; large robust bees 18. Hind legs with black hair _Centris personata_ Smith; male.--P. Hind legs with pale hair _Centris personata_ Smith; female.--P. with black hair; fourth and fifth abdominal segments purple Hair bands of abdomen broad; male with long antennæ and Hair bands of abdomen linear; integument of clypeus black. Thorax with ferruginous hair; integument of scutellum yellow. piliventris_ has long yellow hairs on the anterior margin of hind white hair; mesothorax and scutellum shining, but well punctured; base transversocubital; abdomen with thin pale hair, hind margins of segments small patch of fulvous hair on each side; apical part of abdomen


id: 37732
title: The Emigrant''s Lost Son; or, Life Alone in the Forest
author: Anonymous
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  only with the trees; or with the birds, and insects, and other tribes, My father and uncle shot several birds in the early part of the day, and animated nature as the day; differing not in their variety but only As I have in another place, under the head of a natural day in the This night I took possession of my lodging in good time, and, as I of birds, cutting down the trees that nature intended should supply at every turn; both day and night, every hour, yea, every moment, The morning opened with its usual bustle of animals, birds, and insects size of a man''s leg round trees, making the trunks look like a mast of In the forest, every hour of the night and day is the Creator present the length of time the impressions they leave remain on the mind--for I


id: 37614
title: Jungle Peace
author: Beebe, William
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  gang-planks, for all the world like leaf-cutting ants transporting their never-ending drift of weed has evolved about it a little world of life, brown frond with many long, narrow leaves and a number of berry-like gannets--great sea birds with wings six feet from tip to tip--an small green snake coiled as high as possible, and, serpent-like, waiting great water-constrictor long dead, entangled in some brush, half caught half-circles and crescents, heads of little old men and pods like commonest birds, and their little homes, like bits of tide-hung drift, great, strange creature--this Danger, this thing so wholly new and One could watch the changing seasons of the great tropical jungle from thousands of miles of voyaging to study the life of this great jungle, Only at my feet two ants still moved, a small worker and a great The tropical jungle by day is the most wonderful place in the world.


id: 43051
title: Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds
author: La Varre, William
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  soon learned that to journey up a great river for hundreds of miles scouted around amongst them, found a good canoe, took three black men I stared at the black bank of the river whence came the weird sounds, "You acted like a veteran explorer," said old Captain Peter to me. call all blacks "boys"--thought that it was the white man''s natural [Illustration: THE FIRST JUNGLE INDIANS WE SAW] The Indians sleep without clothes, other than the mesh-like flaps of man''s country and not butt into the wild jungles of the Indians. On this trip one of our men had heard that Simon believed Lewis had "Ha-ha," laughed Lewis, "you''ve got some fine little wait coming." He While the Indians like the white men, they do not like the blacks. "Black night monkey," said Jimmy. Our Indians paddled into a small inlet of the river one day where


id: 58749
title: Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British Guiana
author: Hildreth, Richard
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  British Guiana is a colony, conquered some forty years since from the The greater part of the laboring population of British Guiana were the supreme law in British Guiana, that any laborer, on complaint of "British Guiana, a colony on the coast of South America, and one OFFERS MADE TO SUCH FREE COLORED PERSONS OF THE UNITED STATES, AS Knowing the great want of laborers in British Guiana, and the strong colored people of the United States to Guiana, not only might a great confidence, whom he would send to British Guiana, free of expense, in and the condition of the free colored people in the United States, had from the United States to British Guiana, free of any expense to There is now opened to the free colored people of the United States, should the free colored people of the United States, and those persons In this colony, sir, every laboring man of ordinary


