The Naturalist on the River Amazons

by Henry Walter Bates

EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY
EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS
SCIENCE
BATES’ NATURALIST ON
THE AMAZONS
WITH AN APPRECIATION
BY DARWIN

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THE NATURALIST ON
THE RIVER AMAZONS

By HENRY WALTER BATES

LONDON: PUBLISHED BY
J. M. DENT & SONS LTD
AND IN NEW YORK BY
E. P. DUTTON & CO.
First issue of this edition 1910
Reprinted 1914

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Contents

[Chapter I—PARÁ]
Arrival — Aspect of the Country — The Pará River — First Walk in the Suburbs of Pará — Birds, Lizards, and Insects of the Suburbs — Leaf-carrying Ant — Sketch of the Climate, History, and present Condition of Pará.