Identifier: wondersoftropics00nort (find matches)
Title: Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, Ill. (etc.) National Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ed one. The bird is a hen sittingon her eggs. Depend upon it, the troop is not far off. See, see! thereare many others along the banks. What a funny appearance they have.Bed. Wings Sweeping- Throug-h. the Air. Presently a flash of red appeared in the blue sky, and looking up, wesaw what might be described as a gre;at fiery triangle in the air sweepingdow^itQ^vards us. On it came, greatly diminishing its rate, and we then BATTLING WITH DIFFICULTIES AND/ DANGERS. 213 saw that it was composed of flamingoes. They hovered for a moment,then flew round and round, following one another, and graduallyapproached the marsh, on which they alighted. Immediately theyarranged themselves as we had before seen them, in long lines,when several marched off on either side to act as sentinels, while therest commenced fishing. We could see them arching their necks anddigging their long bills into the ground, while they stirred up the mudwith their webbed feet, in order to procure the water-insects on which
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THE MARVELLOUS SPECTRAL LEMUR. they subsist. They, however, were not the only visitors to the river.The tide was low, and on every mud-bank or exposed spot countlessnumbers of birds were collected—numerous kinds of gulls, herons, andlong-legged cranes—besides which, on the trees were perched thousands ofwhite birds, looking at a distance like shining white flowers. Vast flocksof huge pelicans were swimming along the stream, dipping their enormousbills into the water, and each time bringing up a fish. They have enor-mous pouches, capable of containing many pounds of their finny prey. 214 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. Other forms of animal life abound in the Tropics, and not the leastmarvellous of these is the spectral lemur. Lemur is the name applied to about thirty species of monkeys. Theyare divided into five principal genera, inhabiting chiefly Madagascar, afew living in Africa and the warm regions of Asia and its archipelago. The animals have two sharp claws on each hind foot, all th

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