. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. Hff r^ 1 >^^^^B â ;; i i â i) 1 t. li â ' Hi-' j I'- -K li li Hill! III 1 1 iil| 1 i;' ; Ul 284 \vandp:rings in south America. Ii;i lana, y vuelven trasquilados;" many go for wool, and come home shorn. In order to pick up matter for natural history, I have wandered througu the wildest parts of South America's equatorial regions.
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. Hff r^ 1 >^^^^B â ;; i i â i) 1 t. li â ' Hi-' j I'- -K li li Hill! III 1 1 iil| 1 i;' ; Ul 284 \vandp:rings in south America. Ii;i lana, y vuelven trasquilados;" many go for wool, and come home shorn. In order to pick up matter for natural history, I have wandered througu the wildest parts of South America's equatorial regions. I have attacked and slain a modern Python, and rode on the hack o^ a cayman close to the water's edge; a very di^ situation from that of a Hyde-park dandy on his Sunday p"ancer before the ladies. Alone and barefoot I have pulied poisonous snakes out of their lurking-place? ; climbed up trees to peep into holes for bats and vampires, and for days together hastened through sun and rain to the thickest parts ot the forest to procure specimens I had never got before. In fine, I have pursued the wild beasts over hill and dale, through swamps and quagmires, now scorched by the noon-day sun, now drenched by the pelting shower, and returned to the hammock, to satisfy the cravings of hunger, often on a poor and scanty supper. These vicissitudes have turned to chestnut hue a once English complexion, and changed the colour of my hair, before father Time had meddled with it. The detention of the collection after it had fairly passed the Customs, and the subsequent order fror i the Treasury that I should pay duty for the specimens, unless they were presented to some public institution, have cast a damp upon my energ}% and forced, as it were, the cup of Lethe to my lips, by drinking which I have forgot my former intention of giving a lecture in public on preparing specimens to adorn museums. In fine, it is this ungenerous treatment that has paralyzed my plans, and caused me to
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