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" The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are obliged constantly to change their place of residence; but they return at intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These... "
Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and ... - Page 189
by Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 512 pages
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A Naturalist's Voyage: Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and ...

Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 628 pages
...the Fuegian habitations ; but every bay in the neighbourhood might be so called with equal propriety. The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are...obliged constantly to change their place of residence ; A WRETCHED CLIMATE. 259 but they return at intervals to -the same spots, as is evident from the piles...
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Property: Its Origin and Development

Charles Letourneau - Property - 1892 - 440 pages
...considerable extent, as the Fuegians' manner of feeding obliges them constantly to change their encampments ; but they return at intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight.3 Foresight, care for the morrow,...
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Property: Its Origin and Development

Charles Letourneau - Property - 1892 - 434 pages
...considerable extent, as the Fuegians' manner of feeding obliges them constantly to change their encampments ; but they return at intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight.3 Foresight, care for the morrow,...
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Charles Darwin's Works: Journal of researches into the natural history and ...

Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 542 pages
...neighbourhood might be so called with equal propriety. The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell -fish, are obliged constantly to change their place of residence...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished...
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Natural Science: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress, Volume 11

Natural history - 1897 - 488 pages
...describe what might have been seen on the shores of the Baltic in the period under consideration : — " The inhabitants living chiefly upon shell-fish are...residence, but they return at intervals to the same spot, as is evident from the pile of old shells." Obviously, the refuse and rubbish of these people...
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Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland: A Folklore Sketch; a ..., Volume 1

William Gregory Wood-Martin - Folklore - 1902 - 500 pages
...ourselves the state of the population which once lived in a very similar manner on the Irish littoral : " The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are...intervals, to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells. . . . The Fuegian wigwam resembles in size and dimensions a haycock. It merely...
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The Natural History of Animals: The Animal Life of the World in ..., Volume 7

James Richard Ainsworth Davis - Animal behavior - 1904 - 332 pages
...prehistoric men of the shell -mounds, except that the latter were probably in better case. He says: — "The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish,...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. . . . These poor wretches were...
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Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various ...

Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1908 - 542 pages
...Fuegian H 2 habitations; but every bay in the neighbourhood might be so called with equal propriety. The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 29

Literature - 1909 - 574 pages
...the Fuegian habitations; but every bay in the neighbourhood might be so called with equal propriety. The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished...
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The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1909 - 564 pages
...the Fuegian habitations; but every bay in the neighbourhood might be so called with equal propriety. The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished...
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