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  • It was among the cataracts that we began to hear of the hairy man of the woods, called salvaje, that carries off women, constructs huts, and sometimes eats human flesh.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • It was among the cataracts that we began to hear of the hairy man of the woods, called salvaje, that carries off women, constructs huts, and sometimes eats human flesh.

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • Out across the Atlantic, beyond the Falklands, which obsesses us too much, there is a continent that would like to be a friend and partner to Britain, a still-respected alternative to what Latin Americans see as the imposition of North American capitalismo salvaje – wild capitalism, exploitation from the north.

    South America could be a good friend, but we ignore it 2010

  • Mi más sentido pésame a todos aquéllos que perdieron amigos, familiares y seres queridos en el salvaje atentado terrorista de hoy en Madrid.

    Este foro est� de luto 2004

  • Meanwhile, the lanzador for the Bravos throws alanzamiento salvaje and now has a cuenta maxima, tres y dos, on Mike Piazza.

    No Language Bar For Los Amazin's 2002

  • Además, ¿qué apoyo (a juicio de _Manos-gordas_) podría hallar en las leyes ni en las autoridades de España un extranjero, un mahometano, un semi-salvaje, para adquirir la _Torre de Zoraya_, para hacer excavaciones en ella, para entrar en posesión

    Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862

  • In all these places, so distant one from the other, it is asserted that the salvaje is easily recognized by the traces of its feet, the toes of which are turned backward.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • Travellers who may hereafter visit the missions of the Orinoco will do well to follow up our researches on the salvaje or great devil of the woods; and examine whether it be some unknown species of bear, or some very rare monkey analogous to the Simia chiropotes, or Simia satanas, which may have given rise to such singular tales.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • The same author, notwithstanding his credulity, acknowledges that he never knew an Indian who asserted positively that he had seen the salvaje with his own eyes.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • The animal killed in my time at the foot of the mountains of Merida, and sent, by the name of salvaje, to Colonel Ungaro, the governor of the province of

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

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