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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... "
Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New York - Page 425
by American Institute of the City of New York - 1853
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The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von Humboldt

Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 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...
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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) - English literature - 1819 - 592 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 employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children....
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The Quarterly review, Volume 21

1819 - 596 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 employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry 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 - Natural history - 1819 - 602 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's surface. Some employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry 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 - Natural history - 1819 - 590 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's surface. Some employ their bowls under the tree itself, others cany the juice home to their children....
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The Parlour Portfolio, Or, Post-chaise Companion: Being a ..., Volume 2

Anecdotes - 1820 - 442 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 employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children....
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The Edinburgh monthly review, Volume 4

1820 - 870 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 employ their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children....
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Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural ..., Volume 1

Alexander Walker - Colombia - 1822 - 846 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 Btnpty their bowls under the tree itself ; others carry the juice home to their children....
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Colombia: Siendo una relacion geografica, topografica, agricultural ...

Alexander Walker - Colombia - 1822 - 844 pages
...rising of the sun that this vegetable foun,tain is .most abundant. The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large...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....
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Museum Americanum, Or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and ...

Charles Hulbert - America - 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 poisonous...
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