Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter: An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia, While Collecting Orchids in the Northern AndesCassell, limited, 1891 - 222 pages |
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... EMERALD OF CATTLEYA WARSCEWICZII VILLAGE OF LA PALMA -- BUTTERFLIES - ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI — IBAGUE PORT CHAPTER XI . OF HONDA - DESCENDING THE RIVER - MAGDALENA— PUERTO BERRIO CHESTERTON'S GRAVE - THE OPCN DISTRICT -- IN SEARCH OF ...
... EMERALD OF CATTLEYA WARSCEWICZII VILLAGE OF LA PALMA -- BUTTERFLIES - ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI — IBAGUE PORT CHAPTER XI . OF HONDA - DESCENDING THE RIVER - MAGDALENA— PUERTO BERRIO CHESTERTON'S GRAVE - THE OPCN DISTRICT -- IN SEARCH OF ...
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... EMERALD MINE , WITH NATIVES WORKING . WATER - WASHING PROCESS IN THE EMERALD MINE 109 III To face page 118 To face page 121 To face page 127 127 131 132 133 136 To face page 138 To face page 141 FEEDING ON 146 To face page 146 To face ...
... EMERALD MINE , WITH NATIVES WORKING . WATER - WASHING PROCESS IN THE EMERALD MINE 109 III To face page 118 To face page 121 To face page 127 127 131 132 133 136 To face page 138 To face page 141 FEEDING ON 146 To face page 146 To face ...
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... EMERALD MINES - IN SEARCH OF CATTLEYA WAR- SCEWICZII - VILLAGE OF LA PALMA - BUTTERFLIES -ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI — IBAGUE . THIS most popular orchid , Odontoglossum crispum , is found over a very wide range of country , extending on ...
... EMERALD MINES - IN SEARCH OF CATTLEYA WAR- SCEWICZII - VILLAGE OF LA PALMA - BUTTERFLIES -ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI — IBAGUE . THIS most popular orchid , Odontoglossum crispum , is found over a very wide range of country , extending on ...
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An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia, While Collecting Orchids in the Northern Andes Albert Millican. ز NATIVE DINNER - TIME . K * emerald mine .
An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia, While Collecting Orchids in the Northern Andes Albert Millican. ز NATIVE DINNER - TIME . K * emerald mine .
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... emerald mine . Here , at an altitude of about 8,500 feet above the sea - level , I found an abundance of plants , their magnificent spikes of flower looking doubly beautiful hanging from the branches of the trees , some high up out of ...
... emerald mine . Here , at an altitude of about 8,500 feet above the sea - level , I found an abundance of plants , their magnificent spikes of flower looking doubly beautiful hanging from the branches of the trees , some high up out of ...
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amongst appearance arrived banks Barranquilla beautiful bird boat boatmen Bogota Book Bucaramanga camp canoe Caracas Carthagena Cassell's Cattleya Mendelii Cattleya Warscewiczii Cheap Edition Cloth gilt coffee Colombian Coloured Plates crowded distance emerald English fish flowers forest four Funza gilt edges gold Guayra harbour height houses hundred huts Illustrated throughout immense Indian inhabitants island jaguar journey Julian Hawthorne La Guayra lake land leaving Lebrija Magdalena river magnificent miles miserable morning mountains mules natives night Odontoglossum Odontoglossum crispum Oncidium Kramerianum orchids Original Illustrations Pacho palms passed passengers Phantom plain plants plaza port precipices Prof Puerto Cabello railway rich RIVER LEBRIJA river Magdalena rock sand Santander Santo Domingo river Savanna scarcely scenery season seen ship side sight Simiti situation Spanish steamboats Story stream streets thousand feet track traveller trees vegetation village called Vols W. W. GREENER wild wood
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