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To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.
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This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now…
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The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo…
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Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that,…
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Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit…
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Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but…
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On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the…
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In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the…
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I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset.…
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At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it…
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All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of…
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I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is…
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