jungles

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

He heard stories of an enormous reptile alleged to live in the jungles, and included a description of the beast in his official report.

And in a series of bitterly fought battles in the jungles and hills and along the great rivers of Burma he waged one of the most brilliant campaigns of the war.

He stressed the wild beauty of the mountains, and the jungles.

* In the Bible Solomon set up a trade with Tarshish and received ivory, apes, and peacocks (, ) from Tarshish which are all native to the jungles in India.

Subsistence farming, widely practiced from the northeastern jungles to the southwestern grasslands, consists largely of corn, bean, and tuber plots.

Allied troops entered Asunción in January 1869, but Solano López held out in the northern jungles for another fourteen months until he finally died in battle.

Bongos are found in dense tropical jungles with dense undergrowth up to an altitude of 4, 000 meters ( 12, 800 ft ) in Central Africa, with isolated populations in Kenya, and the following west African countries: -

Arrow sizes vary greatly across cultures and range from very short ones that require the use of special equipment to be shot to ones in use in the Amazon River jungles that are long.

The Hutu refugees then split, about 800, 000 fleeing back into Rwanda and several hundred thousand moving west into the Zairean jungles where many died of starvation and exposure to the elements or fell victim to attacks by various armed parties.

The North Vietnamese built, maintained, and expanded, under a deluge of bombs, over 3, 000 kilometers of roads and paths through the mountains and jungles while only two percent of the troops sent south were killed by the American effort to halt their infiltration into South Vietnam.

He explored the jungles on the hills near Vihar

Lots of desert, and jungles at the equator.

In 2007, Clarkson described it as the worst in the world, " its name was like a disease and suggested it was built in jungles by people who wear leaves for shoes ".

These tropical jungles are similar to coral reefs in that they are highly efficient at conserving and circulating necessary nutrients, which explains their lushness in a nutrient desert.

Roosevelt led a major expedition to the Amazon jungles but contracted diseases which ruined his health.

They frequent jungles or open country, and are often seen in the neighborhood of villages.

While the Japanese were able to advance and encircle the formations of 14th Army, they were unable to defeat those same forces or break out of the jungles along the Indian frontier.

Apart from being exposed to the impending threat of invasion, the other problem was the force of monsoon seasons, which led to numerous flooding as water gushed down from the jungles above through the many tributaries.

Bandits attacked isolated American posts, and soldiers that went astray in the jungles faced attacks from juramentados.

During the Great Depression, one of Vancouver's several hobo jungles sprang up on the False Creek flats opposite Granville Island's north shore.

Several of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan novels happen in and around the lost city of Opar, deep in the African jungles — with Opar evidently being another name for Ophir.

But the jungles have mostly been cleared and their inhabitants exterminated by the Santals and Paharias, who have crossed the Ganges in large number to settle in Barind and other areas.

They were pointed out to an Englishman in late 19th century but the jungles had taken a toll on all the monuments.

In Palladium's After The Bomb Sourcebook 6: Mutants in Orbit, there is a section pertaining to Rifts that also says that there were several points where the ley lines create dimensional pockets ( similar to the Bermuda Triangle ) in which full-fledged jungles grow within the borders of three nearby Rifts.