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A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER VII
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In India there is a fishing genus of owls, which likewise catches crabs.

(7/2.

"Journal of Asiatic Soc." volume 5 page 363.) In the evening we crossed the Rio Arrecife on a simple raft made of barrels lashed together, and slept at the post-house on the other side.

I this day paid horse-hire for thirty-one leagues; and although the sun was glaring hot I was but little fatigued.

When Captain Head talks of riding fifty leagues a day, I do not imagine the distance is equal to 150 English miles.


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