 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1870 - 312 pages
...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...that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The negroes and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1874 - 502 pages
...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...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... | |
 | J. Cooper - 1874 - 170 pages
...single shower moistens its leaves. Its branches appear dead and dried; yet, as soon as the trunk is cut, there flows from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is at sunrise that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The natives may then be seen hastening from... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1881 - 372 pages
...confess there are few that have made so powerful an impression on me as the aspect of the cow-tree. It is at the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The negroes and natives are seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1883 - 460 pages
...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 and nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the eun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from... | |
 | 1883 - 592 pages
...appear dead and dried ; but, when the stem is pierced, there flows this sweet and nourishing liquid. It is at the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. Negroes and natives are ^then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1884 - 510 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Folkard - 1884 - 660 pages
...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... | |
 | 1889 - 828 pages
...year not a single shower moi-^tens 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 sumise that this vegetiMe fountain is most abundant. The natives are then seen hastening from all quarters,... | |
 | 1890 - 838 pages
...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...that' this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The negroes and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large howls to receive... | |
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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... 
