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... Indian Peace Medal . " Billy the Boy Naturalist " : A Review . Review of Captain Dugmore's " Adventures in Beaver Stream Camp " Sight Conservation Classes in New York Schools . Notes Human Culture . FEBRUARY Nature Reflected in the Art ...
... Indian Peace Medal . " Billy the Boy Naturalist " : A Review . Review of Captain Dugmore's " Adventures in Beaver Stream Camp " Sight Conservation Classes in New York Schools . Notes Human Culture . FEBRUARY Nature Reflected in the Art ...
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... Indian peace medal , 113 Indians , Poh - we - ka of the Tewa , 357 Klamath Lake Reservation , 734 Knot , eggs of , 74 ; on nest . 74 ; with chick , 75 Lewis and Clark , memorial bronze , 404 Liguus fasciatus , shells of , 664 Llewellyn ...
... Indian peace medal , 113 Indians , Poh - we - ka of the Tewa , 357 Klamath Lake Reservation , 734 Knot , eggs of , 74 ; on nest . 74 ; with chick , 75 Lewis and Clark , memorial bronze , 404 Liguus fasciatus , shells of , 664 Llewellyn ...
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... Indian scout Photographs of a descendant of the mustangs by Harold J. Cook Primitive Ideas on Numbers and Systems of Measurement .... An Indian Peace Medal ... A relic of the Lewis and Clark Expedition dug up in Idaho With a photograph ...
... Indian scout Photographs of a descendant of the mustangs by Harold J. Cook Primitive Ideas on Numbers and Systems of Measurement .... An Indian Peace Medal ... A relic of the Lewis and Clark Expedition dug up in Idaho With a photograph ...
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... India - rubber balls , and are extremely sensitive to the sun and therefore constantly sheltered by their parents . In a few days the white down appears and the rookery is then white as a cotton field . As soon as the youngsters are ...
... India - rubber balls , and are extremely sensitive to the sun and therefore constantly sheltered by their parents . In a few days the white down appears and the rookery is then white as a cotton field . As soon as the youngsters are ...
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... camp , cache for emergency tools and equipment , the condition , area . and date of burned regions . and character and position of all woods and water courses 99 66 FOREST CLAD HEIGHTS OF THE ADIRONDACKS FROM INDIAN PASS The.
... camp , cache for emergency tools and equipment , the condition , area . and date of burned regions . and character and position of all woods and water courses 99 66 FOREST CLAD HEIGHTS OF THE ADIRONDACKS FROM INDIAN PASS The.
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Page 221 - The other apes, enjoying the fun, evidently wish to take a part in it ; but the other branches being too high, they form a sort of chain by laying hold of each other's paws, and thus swing backwards and forwards, while any one of them who comes within reach of the crocodile torments him to the best of his ability. Sometimes the terrible jaws suddenly close, but not upon the audacious ape, who just escapes ; then there are cries of exultation from the tormentors, who gambol about joyfully. Occasionally,...
Page 114 - This is a much greater act of hospitality than we have witnessed from any nation or tribe since we have passed the Rocky mountains, in short be it spoken to their immortal honor it is the only act which deserves the appellation of hospitallity which we have witnessed in this quarter.