Their manner of travelling is thus: the foremost walks to the extremity of a bough, from which it bounds to the extremity of one belonging to the next tree, often at a most astonishing distance, and with such wonderful activity and precision that it never... Travels in South America - Página 1661824 - 180 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Bingley - 1803 - 524 páginas
...are black, and remarkably lively. These Monkies he saw daily passing along the sides of the river, skipping from tree to tree, regularly following each other, like a little army, with their young ones at their backs, not unlike small knapsacks. Their manner of travelling is this : the foremost walks... | |
| John Gabriel Stedman - 1813 - 550 páginas
...sides of the rivers, skipping from tree to tree, but mostly about midday, and in very numerous bodies, regularly following each other like a little army,...extremity of a bough, from which it bounds to the extremity of one belonging to the next tree, often at a most astonishing distance, and with such wonderful... | |
| R. P. Forster - 1818 - 514 páginas
...sides of the river, skipping from tree to tree, but mostly about mid-day, and in very numerous bodies, regularly following each other like a little army,...backs, not unlike little knapsacks. Their manner of travel. ling is thus : the foremost walks to the extremity of a bough, from which it bounds to the... | |
| 1824 - 190 páginas
...animal abont the size of u, rabbit. He saw numbers of them daily passing along the sides of the river, skipping from tree to tree, regularly following each...little army, with their young ones on their backs, which have no unapt resemblance to knapsacks. The leader walks to the extremity of a bough, from which... | |
| William Bingley - 1829 - 382 páginas
...informs us, respecting these Monkeys, that he saw them daily passing along the sides of the river, skipping from tree to tree, regularly following each other, like a little army, with their young ones at their backs, not unlike small knapsacks. Their manner of travelling is this: the foremost walks... | |
| William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 páginas
...informs us, respecting these Monkeys, that he saw them daily passing along the sides of the river, skipping from tree to tree, regularly following each other, like a little army, with their young ones at their backs, not unlike small knapsacks. Their manner of travelling is this: the foremost walks... | |
| John Hogg (publisher.) - 1878 - 536 páginas
...tamed state. An old traveller states that he has seen them daily passing along the sides of a river, skipping from tree to tree, regularly following each...army, with their young ones on their backs, not unlike small knapsacks. When travelling, the foremost walks to the extremity of a bough, then bounds to one... | |
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