| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 312 pages
...leaves and nourishes the roots. When we find these pines, we stick our knives into the leaves just above the root, and that lets out the water, which...hats, as I have done many times to my great relief.' THE MOSQUITO HEN. 139 5. After a brief but tedious experience of logwood cutting, Dampier turned to... | |
| Henry Raper - 1870 - 968 pages
...from trees. The leaves hold a pint and a half or a quart. We stick our knives into the leaves, just above the root, and that lets out the water, which...hats, as I have done many times to my great relief." The cocoanut-tree, the fruit of which is found plentifully, but not everywhere, in the tropics, and... | |
| Henry Raper - Nautical astronomy - 1882 - 952 pages
...from trees. The leaves hold a pint and a half or a quart. We stick our knives into the leaves, just above the root, and that lets out the water, which...hats, as I have done many times to my great relief." The cocoanut-tree, the fruit of which is found plentifully, but not everywhere, in the tropics, and... | |
| William Dampier - Buccaneers - 1906 - 694 pages
...the Leaves and nourishes the Root. When we find these Pines, we stick our Knives into the Leaves just above the Root, and that lets out the Water, which...Hats, as I have done many times to my great Relief. The Land near the Sea or the Lagunes is Mangrovy, and always wet, but at a little distance from it,... | |
| Henry Raper - Nautical astronomy - 1908 - 1018 pages
...from trees. The leaves hold a pint and a half or a quart. We stick our knives into the leaves, just above the root, and that lets out the water, which...hats, as I have done many times to my great relief." The cocoanut-tree, the fruit of which is found plentifully, but not everywhere, in the tropics, and... | |
| Arminianism - 1811 - 1000 pages
...nourishes the root. When, wfind thefe pines, we (lick our knives into the leaves, jufl above :i* roots, and that lets out the water, which we catch in our hats, a Ibavf dine many times, to my great relief." One contrivance of nature in this vegetable, Sir Hans... | |
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