makes up for its lack relatively to Africa and India of large man-eating Carnivora by the extraordinary ferocity or blood-thirstiness of certain small creatures of which the kinsfolk elsewhere are harmless. It is only here that fish no bigger than trout... Nature - Page 97edited by - 1915Full view - About this book
| Theodore Roosevelt - Antiques & Collectibles - 1914 - 518 pages
...made by one of the true vampires they would lap the flowing blood and enlarge the wound. South America makes up for its lack, relatively to Africa and India, of large man-eating carnivores by the extraordinary ferocity or bloodthirstiness of certain small creatures of which the... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - Brazil - 1919 - 468 pages
...made by one of the true vampires they would lap the flowing blood and enlarge the wound. South America makes up for its lack, relatively to Africa and India, of large man-eating carnivores by the extraordinary ferocity or bloodthirstiness of certain small creatures of which the... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - Citizenship - 1920 - 426 pages
...Fish." The piranha. Roosevelt says of this fish in his Through the Brazilian Wilderness: " South America makes up for its lack, relatively to Africa and India, of large man-eating carnivores by the extraordinary ferocity or bloodthirstiness of certain small creatures of which the... | |
| 1914 - 970 pages
...by one of the true vampires they would lap the flowing blood, and enlarge the wound. South America makes up for its lack, relatively to Africa and India, of large man-eating carnivores by the extraordinary ferocity or blood* Copyright, 1914, by Charles Scribner's Sons. New... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - Nature - 2004 - 224 pages
...made by one of the true vampires they would lap the flowing blood and enlarge the wound. South America makes up for its lack, relatively to Africa and India, of large man-eating carnivores by the extraordinary ferocity or bloodthirstiness of certain small creatures of which the... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - Travel - 2006 - 441 pages
...made by one of the true vampires they would lap the flowing blood and enlarge the wound. South America makes up for its lack, relatively to Africa and India,...small creatures of which the kinsfolk elsewhere are 138 harmless, It is only here that fish no bigger than trout kill swimmers, and bats the size of the... | |
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