The savanna was dry, but in places showed bright green stretches that were restful to the eye.
He took us around his house and accompanied us for some distance, finally pointing out an indistinct trail across high savanna land which he said was the right one.
The breeze across thesavanna was gentle and soothing.
We did not then know that we were to walk seventeen miles across this savanna before seeing a single habitation of any sort.
Further down toward the port, the savanna was flooded in places to a depth of one or two feet.
At the time of this small-sized flood, a party of surveyors were camped upon the savanna near Central avenue and about a mile from the port.
Several leagues to the southward of Port-Royal, Savanna river empties itself into the ocean, which is also navigable for ships that draw not above fourteen feet water.
The Carolineans, on the other hand, engaged not to smuggle any strong liquors among the settlers of Georgia, and the navigation on the river Savannawas declared equally open and free to both provinces.
They were instructed to hold four general courts at Savanna every year, for regulating public affairs, and determining all differences relating to private property.
The planters situated on the opposite side of Savanna river found in the capital of Georgia a convenient and excellent market for their staple commodities.
The price of produce at Savanna arose as the quantity increased, a circumstance which contributed much to the improvement of the country.
These Indians occupied the lands about the head of Savanna river, and backwards among the Apalachian mountains.
For this purpose, land carriage being expensive, they intended to force their way by water with loaded boats up Savanna river to their stores at Augusta.
Formerly the inhabitants in and about Savanna had transmitted to the Trustees a representation of their grievous circumstances, and obtained from them some partial relief.
But, in the mean time, orders were sent to all the captains of the militia, to hold themselves in readiness to march to Savanna at an hour's warning.
At twelve o'clock Adeline awoke; and her first glance met the dark eyes ofSavanna kindly fixed upon her.
I bequeath them to your care: Savanna knows where they are to be found.
As in the case of the Sandwich and Savanna Sparrows, the curiously striped coloration of this bird's head is evidently intended to facilitate concealment.
A Savanna Sparrow, especially the washed-out western variety, is a mere detached bit of brown earth done up in dried grasses; a feathered commonplace which the landscape will swallow up the instant you take eyes off it.
In early July, 1960, a few individuals were heard at a pond on the savanna at La Libertad.
A contribution to a knowledge of the herpetology of a portion of the savanna region of central Peten, Guatemala.
Possibly the individual collected at Chinaja was accidentally transported there in cargo from Toocog, from which camp at the edge of the savanna planes fly to Chinaja weekly.
At Toocog there is sharp break betweensavanna and forest (Pl.
Rainforest at edge of savanna at Toocog, El Peten, Guatemala.
These frogs were not so abundant in the forest at Toocog as they were around ponds on the savanna at La Libertad.
A camp of the Ohio Oil Company of Guatemala located at the rainforest-savanna edge, 15 kilometers southeast of La Libertad.
Finally, a Prairie differs from a savanna only in being under a zone where the seasons are not marked as wet and dry, but where the herbage corresponds to a variable moisture.
Footnote C: When the English were meditating a descent upon the coast of Gonaive, a negro happened to see a prodigious number of these red-coated birds ranked on the savanna near the sea, as their habit is, in companies.
Footnote A: Savanna was a Haytian word spelt and pronounced by Spaniards.
Somewhere behind me was a kingfisher's rattle, and from a savanna in the same direction came the songs of meadow larks; familiar, but with something unfamiliar about them at the same time, unless my ears deceived me.
A very interesting exception to this rule is the savanna sparrow, who sings habitually from the ground.
We have possibly made too much of the savanna sparrow's innocent eccentricity.
The profound stillness of the sky-bounded plain, only broken by the plash of the waterfowl, or the distant howl of the savanna wolf, and the splendour of the rising sun, imparted an indescribable solemnity and grandeur to the scene.
On the right bank of that river rises a black and impenetrable forest, so thickly matted and united by enormous thorns, that even the hunted deer or savanna wolf will rarely attempt an entrance.
Thus, in the small savannawhere the poor negress, Sister Bab, had found the advance guard of the whole nation, nearly six hundred warriors of the children of the Stone assembled on the night of Saturday.
Each was active, clearing away every trace of their sojourn from the face of the savanna as far as possible, and preparing to betake himself to the shade of the neighboring woods; but Sister Bab was still sound asleep.
A village on the bank of the Rio Papaloapan; savanna and sugar plantations [6].
A town 32 kilometers by road northwest of Acayucan; savanna and low evergreen forest [14].
Stuart found only 20 species of amphibians in both forest and savanna habitats in El Peten.
Of the 36 species of amphibians known from the isthmus, 28 occur on the Gulf lowlands and live in forest or savanna habitats.
A small village on the Rio Papaloapan in northern Oaxaca; low evergreen forest and savanna [11].
In most savanna regions in the Americas the grasslands become waterlogged or even partly flooded during the rainy season and desiccated in the dry season.
An oil refinery center on the Rio Coatzacoalcos; savanna [20].
A village on the Trans-isthmian Railroad; savanna and low evergreen forest along streams [13].
A village 8 kilometers by road west of Minatitlan; savanna [19].
On the Plains of Chivela in the southern part of the central region the vegetation takes on a semi-arid appearance, especially in a savanna on the plains.
On the Jobo savanna the road divides; the eastern branch runs along a range of hills and the western branch over to the Jaina River, where it passes the site of the old mining town of Buenaventura, of which only a few vestiges of walls remain.
A fine piece of prairie land known as the Luisa savanna is crossed, more natural meadows follow and the ascent of the central mountain range begins.
From the head of the East Savanna a short portage led to the West Savanna, an affluent of Prairie River which empties into Sandy Lake, near the southwest corner of Aitkin County.
He ascended the St. Louis River and took the Savanna portage to Sandy Lake.
It led up the St. Louis River to the mouth of the East Savanna near the Floodwood railroad station.
Traveling by way of Fond du Lac and the Savanna portage, Schoolcraft’s party was at Cass Lake on July 10.
The savanna was a wide stretch of open ground outside the fortifications, where reviews were held and the troops performed their evolutions; it lay on the north side of the town.
The place swarmed with soldiers; sentries were pacing to and fro on the parapets, gunners furbishing up their pieces, and squads of native auxiliaries being drilled on a broad savanna outside the walls.
