item: #1 of 7 id: 25888 author: Beebe, William title: Edge of the Jungle date: None words: 61812 flesch: 68 summary: It was undoubtedly still there and nothing had been taken from it; but he had received no orders as to accretions, and so, to our infinite joy and entertainment, we found that in many ways it was not only near jungle, it _was_ jungle. With my hand-lens focused just beyond mandible reach of the biggest soldier, I leaned forward from my insulated chair, hovering like a great astral eye looking down at this marvelously important business of little lives. keywords: air; ants; army; attas; beneath; birds; bit; black; blue; body; butterflies; butterfly; color; day; days; earth; end; eyes; feet; flowers; foot; great; green; guiana; half; hammock; head; herons; high; home; hour; human; insects; jungle; larvæ; leaf; leaves; legs; life; lines; linné; living; mind; minutes; moment; nest; new; night; passing; past; place; rest; roots; sand; second; small; sound; sun; surface; things; thought; time; tree; water; way; white; wind; wings; world; years; yellow cache: 25888.txt plain text: 25888.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 34579 author: Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison) title: Bees from British Guiana Bulletin of the AMNH, Vol. XXXVIII, Art. XX, pp. 685-690 date: None words: 2547 flesch: 69 summary: This is very like _C. viridula_ Smith, which Ducke considers a synonym of _læta_, but the base of the metathorax seems to differ, and the nervures are piceous. Museum from Bartica, which I reported as _E. piliventris_, belongs here. keywords: abdomen; black; hair; new; scutellum cache: 34579.txt plain text: 34579.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 37614 author: Beebe, William title: Jungle Peace date: None words: 62154 flesch: 72 summary: In imagination we could enlarge them to a swarm of silvery bees, and then my glasses resolved them into gannets--great sea birds with wings six feet from tip to tip--an astounding hint of the actual distance and depth below me of this pool-like bay. In especially dense parts we climbed to the summit of great jungle stumps and stretched a white sheet to guide the oncoming trail cutters. keywords: air; ants; army; bird; bit; black; branch; brown; color; coolie; creatures; day; dead; deep; end; eyes; feet; fish; foliage; frog; grass; green; guiana; half; hand; head; heart; hoatzins; home; house; island; jungle; leaves; left; life; light; like; man; memory; mind; minutes; moment; nest; new; old; open; past; pit; place; rain; red; rose; sand; sea; second; silence; sound; sun; surface; things; think; thought; time; trail; tree; turn; voice; water; way; white; wings; work; world; years; yellow cache: 37614.txt plain text: 37614.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 37732 author: Anonymous title: The Emigrant's Lost Son; or, Life Alone in the Forest date: None words: 44940 flesch: 62 summary: Forest trees, in general, are described; those which may afford food to man are more frequently mentioned. One of the flashes brought down a mora tree near to where I stood, crushing the limbs of other trees as it fell. keywords: air; animals; birds; body; day; earth; father; feet; food; forest; good; head; hour; hut; insects; length; life; man; mind; moment; morning; nature; new; night; pecoe; place; round; scene; sidenote; spirit; spot; state; thought; time; tree; view; water; way; wood cache: 37732.txt plain text: 37732.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 43051 author: La Varre, William title: Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds date: None words: 25557 flesch: 86 summary: White men can seldom stand the midday heat in British Guiana. Yet they got there, and I doubt if any crew of white men, without years of practice, could have propelled the heavy craft as easily as they. keywords: away; blacks; boat; camp; captain; cassava; chapter; day; diamond; fire; fish; food; game; good; home; indians; jimmy; jungle; lewis; man; meat; men; night; river; sort; time; trip; water; women cache: 43051.txt plain text: 43051.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 58749 author: Hildreth, Richard title: Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British Guiana date: None words: 6554 flesch: 61 summary: British Guiana includes a portion of this coast, extending some two hundred miles from east to west, bounded on the east by the river Corentyn which separates it from Dutch Guiana, or Surinam, and on the west by the Morocco creek, or the tract of country adjacent to it, belonging to the republic of Venezuela. INDUCEMENTS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES TO EMIGRATE TO BRITISH GUIANA, Compiled from Statements and Documents furnished by Mr. Edward Carbery, Agent of the Immigration Society of British Guiana, and a Proprietor in that Colony. keywords: british; carbery; colony; colored; guiana; labor; laborers; people; states; united; wages cache: 58749.txt plain text: 58749.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 8159 author: Waterton, Charles title: Wanderings in South America date: None words: 85356 flesch: 73 summary: Poor injured little bird of night, how sadly hast thou suffered, and how foul a stain has inattention to facts put upon thy character! They feed entirely on the fruits of the forest and, though of the pie kind, never kill the young of other birds or touch carrion. keywords: account; animal; appearance; arrow; attention; away; bird; black; body; branch; canoe; cayman; close; cotton; country; day; days; demerara; end; eye; fall; feathers; feet; fine; forest; good; ground; guiana; half; hand; head; high; house; indian; kind; left; life; man; morning; nature; new; night; order; parts; place; poison; poor; present; red; river; size; skin; sloth; snake; species; sun; tail; thee; thou; time; tree; view; water; way; white; wilds; wings; wood; world; years cache: 8159.txt plain text: 8159.txt