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" ... 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 blacks and natives... "
The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt: Being a Condensed ... - Page 156
by Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray - 1833 - 424 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 21

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 pages
...fountain is most abundant. 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 employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children. We seem to...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 21

1819 - 596 pages
...fountain is most abundant. 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 employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children. We seem to...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the ..., Volume 4

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pages
...fountain is most abundant. 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 surface. Some employ their bowls under the tree itself, others cany the juice home to their children....
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the ..., Volume 4

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...fountain is most abundant. 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 surface. Some employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children....
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The Parlour Portfolio, Or, Post-chaise Companion: Being a ..., Volume 2

1820 - 442 pages
...fountain is most abundant. 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 employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children. We seem to...
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The Edinburgh monthly review, Volume 4

1820 - 870 pages
...fountain is most abundant. 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 employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children. We seem to...
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Colombia: Siendo una relacion geografica, topografica, agricultural ...

Alexander Walker - 1822 - 844 pages
...foun,tain is .most abundant. 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. We seem to see the family...
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Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural ..., Volume 1

Alexander Walker - 1822 - 846 pages
...fountain is most abundant. 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 Btnpty their bowls under the tree itself ; others carry the juice home to their children. We seem to...
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Museum Americanum, Or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and ...

Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 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. THE MANCHINEEL TREE. (Greig's World Displayed.) fT^HE Manchinecl Tree is one of the most...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the ..., Volume 4

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 pages
...fountain is most abundant. 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 surface. Some empty their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children....
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