Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English,… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation,… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
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