 | Robert Sears - 1856 - 566 pages
...the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large...receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at it* surface. Some employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children.... | |
 | F.G.Cary - 1857 - 634 pages
...the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The negroes and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large...receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at its surface. Some empty their bowls before they leave the tree, others carry the juice home to their... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 pages
...rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain was most abundant. The negroes and natives were then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, which grew yellow, and thickened at its surface. Some emptied their bowls under the tree itself, others carried... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1859 - 438 pages
...rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and natives are then Been hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, whi ih grows yellow and thickens at its surface." b The following description of the vegetation on... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1861 - 364 pages
...the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large...receive the milk, which grows yellow and thickens at its surface." b The following description of the vegetation on the banks of the Cassiquiare, a river... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1862 - 432 pages
...the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large...receive the milk, which grows yellow and thickens at its surface." b The following description of the vegetation on the banks of the Cassiquiare, a river... | |
 | Margaret Plues - 1863 - 438 pages
...the stony soil. 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 sunrise...receive the milk, which grows yellow and thickens on its surface. The milk is glutinous, free from all acrimony, and of an agreeable and balmy smell.... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1866 - 204 pages
...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 sunrise...milk, which grows yellow; and thickens at the surface. Sonre drain their howls under the tree, while others carry home the juice to their children; and you... | |
 | Beauties - 1866 - 310 pages
...nourishing milk. It is at sunrise that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large...bowls under the tree, while others carry home the juice to their children ; and you might fancy, as the father returned home with the milk, you saw the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 274 pages
...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 sunrise...bowls under the tree, while others carry home the juice to their children ; and you might fancy you ' saw the family of a cowherd gathering around him,... | |
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... 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 and nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun, that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The... 
