 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pàgines
...months of the year not a single shower moistens it's foliage. It's branches appear dead and dried ; but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet...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 it's... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pàgines
...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 a sweet...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... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pàgines
...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 a sweet...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... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pàgines
...months of the year not a single shower moistens it's foliage. It's branches appear dead and dried ; but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet...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 it's... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pàgines
...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 a sweet...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... | |
 | 1820 - 442 pàgines
...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 a sweet...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... | |
 | William Bingley - 1820 - 368 pàgines
...Its branches appear dead and dried ; yet when the trunk is pierced, the juice flows freely from it. It is at the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The negroes and Indians are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls, to receive... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1822 - 844 pàgines
...not a single shower moistens, its foliage : its branches appear dead and dried ; but when the {runk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet and nourishing...The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows • yellow, and thickens... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1822 - 846 pàgines
...moistens its foliage : its branches appear dead and dried ; but when the trunk is pierced, there flow's from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is at the...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... | |
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On the barren flank of a rock grows a tree with coriaceous and dry leaves. Its large woody roots can scarcely penetrate into the stone. For several months of the year, not a single shower moistens its foliage. Its branches appear dead and dried; but when... 
