 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...few branches from the trees, with which they make a tent. In a few minutes this slight timber-work is divided into squares, by the stalks of some climbing plant, or the threads of the agave, placed in parallel lines, twelve or thirteen inches from each other. The... | |
 | 1837 - 486 pages
...lines, three or four decimetres from each other. The vijao leaves meanwhile have been unrolled, and are now spread over the above work, so as to cover each other, like tiles of a house. These huts thus hastily built, are cool and commodious. If, during the night the... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Mexico - 1840 - 294 pages
...few branches from the trees, with which they make a lent. In a few minutes, this slight timber-work is divided into squares by the stalks of some climbing plant, or threads of the agava, placed in parallel lines, twelve or fifteen inches from each other. The vijao... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1841 - 1052 pages
...few branches from the trees, with which they make a tent. In a few minutes this slight timber-work is divided into squares by the stalks of some climbing...are now spread over the above work, so as to cover it like the tiles of a house. These huts, thus hastily built, are cool and commodious ; and Humboldt... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1843 - 586 pages
...few branches from the tree«, with whkh they make a tent In a few minutes this alight timber-work Le divided into squares by the stalks of some climbing...are now spread over the above work, so as to cover it like the Шее of a house. These huts, thus hwtily built, are cool and commodious; and Humboldt... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Commercial geography - 1846 - 1084 pages
...they make a tent. In a few minutes this •light timber-work is divided into squares by the stalk« of some climbing plant, or by the threads of the agave....are now spread over the above work, so as to cover it like the tiles of a house. These huts, thus hastily built, are cool and commodious ; and Humboldt... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Commercial geography - 1851 - 1078 pages
...a few minutes this slight timber-work is divided into squares by the stalks of some climbing pjant, or by the threads of the agave. The banana leaves...are now spread over the above work, so as to cover it like the tiles of a bouse. These huts, thus hastily built, arc cool and commodious ; and Humboldt... | |
 | Book - 1851 - 274 pages
...parallel lines at certain distances from each other. The leaves, meanwhile, have been unrolled, and are now spread over the above work so as to cover...tiles of a house. These huts thus hastily built, are both cool and commodious. If, during the night, the traveller feels the rain, he points out the spot... | |
 | Godfrey Rhodes - 1858 - 364 pages
...are lopped off, with which are formed the framework : in a few minutes this slight timber erection is divided into squares by the stalks of some climbing plant or threads of the agave, placed in parallel lines three or four decimeters from each other. The vijao... | |
 | John Tillotson - America - 1869 - 442 pages
...few branches from the trees, with which they make a tent. In a few minutes this slight timber-work is divided into squares by the stalks of some climbing...threads of the agave. The banana leaves having in the meantime been unrolled, are now spread over the above work, so as to cover it like the tiles of a house.... | |
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... lop a few branches from the trees, with which they make a tent. In a few minutes this slight timber-work is divided into squares by the stalks of some climbing plant, or by the threads of the agave. The banana leaves having in the... 