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The western world. Picturesque sketches of nature and natural history in North and South America (1874)

Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 343

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340 SOUTHERN AND WESTERN SHORES OF THE CONTINENT. The inhabitants of this region are among the lowest in the scale of human beings, living in wretched hovels, composed often merely of boughs and leaves, their only clothing scanty pieces of skin, worn on one side, to defend themselves from the icy… … heights above them, continue round the coast for six hundred miles or more northward of Cape Horn, till, in the more northern and warmer latitudes, they give place to semi-tropical vegetation. Now stately trees of various kinds appear, with smooth and highly-coloured bark, loaded with parasitical…

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