Field and Forest Rambles: With Notes and Observations on the Natural History of Eastern CanadaHenry S. King & Company, 1873 - 333 стор. |
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... males are brought in contact with the whites , and in some cases receive the rudi- ments of an English education , the squaws stick to the lodges , and , as a rule , talk only the native language , with all the nar- row - minded ...
... males are brought in contact with the whites , and in some cases receive the rudi- ments of an English education , the squaws stick to the lodges , and , as a rule , talk only the native language , with all the nar- row - minded ...
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... males and ten females , all of whom were French Roman Catholics , belonging to families of the lowest class . These were of all ages , and suffering from every stage of the disease . One old man , whose features were so disfigured as to ...
... males and ten females , all of whom were French Roman Catholics , belonging to families of the lowest class . These were of all ages , and suffering from every stage of the disease . One old man , whose features were so disfigured as to ...
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... males of certain deer during the rutting season is wonderful ; I have known many instances of the red deer of Cashmere having been killed at this season by the hunter merely breaking decayed branches in the forest , when the infuriated ...
... males of certain deer during the rutting season is wonderful ; I have known many instances of the red deer of Cashmere having been killed at this season by the hunter merely breaking decayed branches in the forest , when the infuriated ...
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... males carry them until the end of December , whilst the female and young reindeer also frequently retain theirs ... male weapon of defence being transmitted to the opposite sex , which in the caribou is a rule , whilst in the female ...
... males carry them until the end of December , whilst the female and young reindeer also frequently retain theirs ... male weapon of defence being transmitted to the opposite sex , which in the caribou is a rule , whilst in the female ...
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... males having first acquired them as weapons for fighting with other males ; and , secondly , to their development for some unknown cause at an unusually early age in the males , and their consequent transmission to both sexes . ' At all ...
... males having first acquired them as weapons for fighting with other males ; and , secondly , to their development for some unknown cause at an unusually early age in the males , and their consequent transmission to both sexes . ' At all ...
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