The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 52National Geographic Society, 1928 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 26
... reached us and we sailed southward ; but we were swinging so far to the west that we failed to make St. Paul Rocks , a group of islets inhabited by a few sea birds . We came about and beat back on a long tack which took us northeastward ...
... reached us and we sailed southward ; but we were swinging so far to the west that we failed to make St. Paul Rocks , a group of islets inhabited by a few sea birds . We came about and beat back on a long tack which took us northeastward ...
Page 74
... reached the dol- drums , which in early May are much farther south than in November , when we had crossed them , southward - bound , in 1924. Light squalls came to our aid , and we spent only a part of two days in cross- ing the narrow ...
... reached the dol- drums , which in early May are much farther south than in November , when we had crossed them , southward - bound , in 1924. Light squalls came to our aid , and we spent only a part of two days in cross- ing the narrow ...
Page 75
... reached the end of our 20,000 - mile trail , with nearly 13,000 natural - history specimens , many thousands of photo- graphs , and notebooks bulging with stories of the interesting creatures of distant isles and seas . AND T HE order ...
... reached the end of our 20,000 - mile trail , with nearly 13,000 natural - history specimens , many thousands of photo- graphs , and notebooks bulging with stories of the interesting creatures of distant isles and seas . AND T HE order ...
Page 93
... reaching full growth , though some have been known to pass eight molts . Some change their color pattern after each molt , and most of them , preparing to molt , spin a silk web in which to entangle the legs of the old skin , so that it ...
... reaching full growth , though some have been known to pass eight molts . Some change their color pattern after each molt , and most of them , preparing to molt , spin a silk web in which to entangle the legs of the old skin , so that it ...
Page 107
... reaching as far south as Cuba and Guatemala . Its food plants include the nettle and the hop . This butterfly winters both as a chrysalis and as an adult , and the frayed , worn appearance of the latter is in pain- ful contrast to the ...
... reaching as far south as Cuba and Guatemala . Its food plants include the nettle and the hop . This butterfly winters both as a chrysalis and as an adult , and the frayed , worn appearance of the latter is in pain- ful contrast to the ...
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