 ... disturbed the stillness of the forest; for we observed that the voices were loudest during violent storms of rain, or when the thunder echoed and the lightning flashed through the depths of the woods. The good-natured Franciscan monk who (notwithstanding...  Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting - Page 17edited by - 2013 - 479 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Latin America - 1849 - 480 pages
...The good-natured Franciscan monk, who, although he had been suflering for several months from fever, accompanied us through the Cataracts of Atures and...San Carlos on the Rio Negro, and to the Brazilian boundary, used to say, when fearful on the closing in of night that there might be a thunder-storm,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Botany - 1849 - 332 pages
...The good-natured Franciscan monk, who, although he had been suffering for several months from fever, accompanied us through the Cataracts of Atures and Maypures to San Carlos on the Eio Negro, and to the Brazilian boundary, used to say, when fearful on the closing in of night that... | |
 | 1850 - 592 pages
...depths of the' woods. The good-natured Franciscan monk, who (notwithstanding the fever from which he had been suffering for many months) accompanied us through...night, both to us and to the wild beasts of the forest !' " (pp. 198-200.) There can be no doubt, that animals are often strangely sensitive to atmospheric... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander freiherr von Humboldt - 1850 - 574 pages
...depths of the woods. The good-natured Franciscan monk who (notwithstanding the fever from which he had been suffering for many months), accompanied us through...both to us and to the wild beasts of the forest!" A singular contrast to the scenes I have here described, and which I had repeated opportunities of... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Natural history - 1850 - 498 pages
...depths of the woods. The good-natured Franciscan monk who (notwithstanding the fever from which he had been suffering for many months), accompanied us through...both to us and to the wild beasts of the forest!" A singular contrast to the scenes I have here described, and which I had repeated opportunities of... | |
 | Medicine - 1850 - 586 pages
...(notwithstanding the fever from which he had been suffering for many months) accompanied us through the cataract*. of Atures and Maypures to San Carlos, on the Rio Negro,...night, both to us and to the wild beasts of the forest !" (pp. 198-200.) There can be no doubt, that animals are often strangely sensitive to atmospheric... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Physical geography - 1850 - 508 pages
...he had been suffering for several months from fever, accompanied us through the Cataracts of Atnres and Maypures to San Carlos on the Rio Negro, and to the Brazilian boundary, used to say, when fearful on the closing in of night that there might be a thunder storm,... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - Explorers - 1868 - 442 pages
...he had been suffering from many months, accompanied us through the cataracts of Atures and Maypnres to San Carlos, on the Rio Negro, and to the Brazilian...night both to us and to the wild beasts of the forest !' " Few achievements hi the history of travel have been more remarkable in their results and incidents... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1869 - 484 pages
...good-natured Franciscan monk, who, notwithstanding the fever from which he had been suffering from many months, accompanied us through the cataracts...when apprehensive of a storm at night, ' May Heaven giant a quiet night both to us and to the wild beasts of the forest !' " Few achievements in the history... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 1170 pages
...The good-natuwd Franciscan monk, who, notwithstanding the fever from which he had been suffering from many months, accompanied us through the cataracts...night both to us and to the wild beasts of the forest !' " Few achievements in the history of travel have been more remarkable in their results and incidents... | |
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