 The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at its surface. Some empty their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children.  Travels in South America - Page 391822 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...several months of the year not a single shower moistens its foliage. Its branches appear dead and dried; but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it...nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun, that this vegetable fountain is most abundant The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters,... | |
 | H. J. Lloyd - 1828 - 80 pages
...several months of the year, not a single shower moistens its foliage. Its branches appear dead and dried; but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it...nourishing milk It is at the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The Blacks and natives are then «een hastening from all... | |
 | 1832 - 670 pages
...months of the year not a single shower moistens its foliage. Its branches appear dead and dried ; yet when the trunk is pierced there flows from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is at sun-rise that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and the natives are then to be seen... | |
 | William Henry Bayley Webster - 1834 - 422 pages
...several months of the year not a single shower moistens its foliage. The branches dead and dried ; but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it...and nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun this vegetable fountain is most abundant ; the blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all... | |
 | 1834 - 578 pages
...months of the year, not a single shower moistene its foliage. Its branches appear dead and dried; bat when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet...nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant The Blacks and natives are then seen hastening from ali quarters,... | |
 | William Henry B. Webster - 1834 - 418 pages
...several months of the year not a single shower moistens its foliage. The branches dead and dried ; but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it...and nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun this vegetable fountain is most abundant ; the blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all... | |
 | 1834 - 574 pages
...moisten« its foliage. Its branches appear dead »nd dried; but when the trunk is pierced, there flow» from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant The Blacks ana natives are then seen hastening from al! quarters,... | |
 | 1834 - 444 pages
...several months in the year not a single shower moistens its foliage; its branches appear dead and dried ; but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant: the... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1836 - 588 pages
...montha of the year, not a single shower moistens its foliage. Its brandies appear dead and dried ; yet, when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is UNIVERSAL TRAVELLER. 123 BOGOTA. at sunrise that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks... | |
 | 1837 - 652 pages
...year not a single shower moistens its foliage. Its branches appear dead and dried ; yet as soon as the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is at sun-rise this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The natives are then to be seen hastening from all... | |
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