13 Quotations by Henry Walter Bates
- 1. At length we emerged from the forest, on the banks of the Una, near its mouth. It was here about one ...
- 2. I suffered terribly from heat and mosquitoes as the river sank with the increasing dryness of the se ...
- 3. It is, perhaps, not generally known that the Portuguese, as early as 1710, had a fair knowledge of t ...
- 4. It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauti ...
- 5. One of the daughters was married to a handsome young mulatto, who was present, and sang us some pret ...
- 6. The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassin ...
- 7. The problem, how to obtain a labouring class for a new and tropical country, without slavery, has to ...
- 8. The species has no sting, and does not display active resistance when interfered with. I once imagin ...
- 9. The whole arrangement of a Formicarium, or ant-colony, and all the varied activity of ant-life, are ...
- 10. Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive obje ...
- 11. They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animal ...
- 12. Two of them, seated on a mat in the open verandah, were engaged sewing dresses, for a festival was g ...
- 13. We sometimes went to Murucupi, a creek which passes through the forest, about four miles behind Cari ...
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