 | 1834 - 444 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 ; some empty their bowls near the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children.... | |
 | Physics - 1834 - 574 pages
...that this vegetable fountain is most abundant The Blacks ana natives are then seen hastening from al! quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at its suffice."— Pcrunai AairailM.vol.iv. pp. 816 and ÍÍ17. Under the equator, the climate best suited... | |
 | William Henry Bayley Webster - Gravity - 1834 - 422 pages
...vegetable fountain is most abundant ; the blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow and thickens at its surface." He calls it, the arbol de leche, palo de vaco, or cow-tree ; and says it prevails along... | |
 | William Henry B. Webster - 1834 - 418 pages
...vegetable fountain is most abundant ; the blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow and thickens at its surface." He calls it, the arbol de leche, palo de vaco, or cow-tree ; and says it prevails along... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Civilization - 1836 - 588 pages
...UNIVERSAL TRAVELLER. 123 BOGOTA. at sunrise that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and the natives are then to be seen hastening from all...receive the milk, which grows yellow and thickens at its surface. Some empty their Bowls under the tree, while others carry home the juice for their children.... | |
 | William Adams - America - 1836 - 508 pages
...fountain flows most copiously ; the blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, supplied with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at the surface. On the way from Nueva Valencia, by Villa de Cura and San Juan, to the little village of Ortiz, placed... | |
 | Books - 1837 - 652 pages
...abundant. The natives are then to be seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large boxvls to receive the milk, which grows yellow and thickens at the surface. Some employ their bowls under the tree, while others carry home thejuice for their children. This fine tree... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - Botany - 1838 - 388 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...which grows yellow and thickens at the surface. Some empty their bowls under the tree, while others carry home the juice to their children. The milk obtained... | |
 | John Stevens Henslow - Botany - 1839 - 342 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...which grows yellow and thickens at the surface. Some empty their bowls under the tree, while others carry home the juice to their children. The milk obtained... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1839 - 520 pages
...fountain is most abundant. The natives are seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large H 2 bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at the surface. This tree is of the family of the Sapoteae. CAROLINE. What a delightful resource it must be to the... | |
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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... 
