Here and there stories: Here and there in America

Irving, Washington

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Persistent identifier:: PPN1736863762

URN:: urn:nbn:de:0220-gd-20600802

Title:: Here and there stories

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Macmillan

Document type:: Multivolume work

Collection:: Great Britain

Publication year:: 1914

Copyright:: Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung

Language:: English

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Persistent identifier:: PPN1736864211

URN:: urn:nbn:de:0220-gd-20600565

Title:: Here and there in America

Shelfmark:: GB H-343(1,14)13

Author:: Irving, Washington

Volume count:: 13, [Schülerband]

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: MacMillan

Document type:: Volume

Collection:: Great Britain

Publication year:: 1914

Edition title:: [Electronic ed.]

Copyright:: Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung

Language:: English

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Title:: THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF AMERICA

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THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF AMERICA 31 the natives regard them with but little fear, they have been known to seize large animals and even human beings from the bank, drown them beneath the waters and then devour them. Another common reptile, that, in addition to being harmless, provides the natives with an almost unlimited supply of eggs, is the turtle that frequents the rivers and deposits its eggs in the shelving sandy banks, When Europeans first visited America they found no domestic beast of burden, except the llama, a kind of small camel that seems to be a near relative of the wild huanaco, that roams over the plains and mountain slopes of Patagonia. It is recorded by naturalists that these animals have a strange habit of retiring to a particular place to die. Darwin, who visited their dying place and saw the ground covered with the bleached bones of past generations, said that in most cases they must have crawled, before dying, beneath and among the bushes. Of the many interesting birds that are natives of America, mention might be made of the condor that dwells on the lofty peaks of the Andes, the rhea or American ostrich that has its home on the pampas, and the turkey that has become such a familiar feature of our English farm- yards, but which, together with tobacco and the potato, was unknown to our forefathers before the early Eliza- bethan voyagers began to traffic with the strange new world in the west.

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