The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 55National Geographic Society, 1929 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 86
... feet . At 10 o'clock one morning we started the real ascent , a steady climb through a great variety of vegetation , in places so dense that we regretted we were not blessed with the prehensile tails of the monkeys about us . The worst ...
... feet . At 10 o'clock one morning we started the real ascent , a steady climb through a great variety of vegetation , in places so dense that we regretted we were not blessed with the prehensile tails of the monkeys about us . The worst ...
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... feet long , coiled in a large hole in the tree , at a point thirty feet from the ground and about a foot from the ladder . It struck at him as he passed , in the well - known manner of poisonous and of many quite harmless snakes ; but ...
... feet long , coiled in a large hole in the tree , at a point thirty feet from the ground and about a foot from the ladder . It struck at him as he passed , in the well - known manner of poisonous and of many quite harmless snakes ; but ...
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... feet above the clouds . Of the earth I could now see nothing . " More than a mile above me lay a sec- ond layer of clouds , pierced here and there by sunlight . Soaring thus between a floor and a ceiling of clouds was so marvelous an ...
... feet above the clouds . Of the earth I could now see nothing . " More than a mile above me lay a sec- ond layer of clouds , pierced here and there by sunlight . Soaring thus between a floor and a ceiling of clouds was so marvelous an ...
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Map of Discovery Western Hemisphere Reproduction in colors of the painting | 93 |
Turkey Goes to School By MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS | 95 |
Adventures of the National Geographic | 109 |
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