 shirt trees, fifty feet high. The Indians cut off cylindrical pieces two feet in diameter, from which they peel the red and fibrous bark, without making any longitudinal incision. This bark affords them a sort of garment which resembles a sack of a very...  The Ladies' pocket magazine - Page 51836Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...from which they peel the red and fibrous bark, without making any longitudinal incision. This bark affords them a sort of garment, which resembles sacks...upper opening serves for the head : and two lateral boles are cut to admit the arms. The natives wear these shirts of marima in the rainy season :' they... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...from which they peel the red and fibrous bark, without making any longitudinal incision. This bark affords them a sort of garment, which resembles sacks...coarse texture, and without a seam. The upper opening admits the head, and two lateral holes are cut to admit the arms*." The Cap-tree is a species of Palm-tree,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1827 - 894 pages
...from which they peel the red and fibrous bark, without making any longitudinal incision. This bark affords them a sort of garment, which resembles sacks of a very coarse * The smooth surface of the sarbacans sufficiently proves, that they are not furnished by a plant of... | |
 | 1844 - 396 pages
...fibrous parts ; the shirt is thus formed without seam. The head is thrusl Ihrough one end, and Iwo lateral holes are cut to admit the arms ; the natives wear these shirts in the rainy seasons, which, according to Humboldt, arc equal to any of oui Macintoshes for keeping... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...without making any longitudinal incision. This bark affords them a eort of garment, which resembles socks of a very coarse texture, and without a seam. The...cut to admit the arms. The natives wear these shirts in the rainy season ; and as in South America the amazing bounties of Providence are generally perverted... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1852 - 538 pages
...from which they peel the red and fibrous bark, without making any longitudinal incision. This bark affords them a sort of garment, which resembles sacks of a very coarse texture, and without a Beam. The upper opening serves for the head ; and two lateral holes are cut for the arms to pass through.... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1859 - 360 pages
...without making any longitudinal incision. This bark affords them a sort of garment which resembles a sack of a very coarse texture, and without a seam. The...to admit the arms. The natives wear these shirts of Marina in the rainy season ; they have the form of the ponchos and manos of cotton which are so common... | |
 | 1865 - 972 pages
...without making any longitudinal Incision. The bark affords them a sort of garment which resembles a sack of a very coarse texture, and without a seam. The upper opening serves for the hands, and two littoral holes are cut to admit the arms. The natives wear .these shirts of Marina in... | |
 | Margaret Amanda Pattison - 1868 - 178 pages
...from which they peel the red and fibrous bark, without making any longitudinal incision. This bark affords them a sort of garment, which resembles sacks,...head, and two lateral holes are cut to admit the arms. FERN TREES. — There are five kinds of fern trees. They are in general much more rare than palm trees.... | |
 | Young people - 1869 - 684 pages
...making any longitudmal incision. This bark affords them a sort of garment which resembles a sack of very coarse texture, and without a seam. The upper...holes are cut to admit the arms. The natives wear the shirts of marina in the rainy season ; they have the form of the ponchos and manos of cotton which... | |
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