 It is wonderful light, they cut them into pieces, and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf spread is round almost like a circle, but being cut in pieces for use are near like unto a triangle: they lay them upon their heads as they travel with the...  A Description of Ceylon - Страница 358по James Cordiner - 1807 - 4 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | William Martin Harvard - 1823 - 546 страници
...cocoa-nut tree, while those employed in fitting it out were fed upon the nuts. t Cordiner, vol. ip 357. into pieces, and carry them in their hands ; the whole...pieces cut for use are nearly like unto a triangle. When the sun is vehement, they use them to shade themselves from the heat. All soldiers carry them... | |
 | 1835 - 298 страници
...be thus broad when it is open, yet it folds close, like a lady's fan, and then it is no bigger thai) a man's arm, and extremely light. The people cut them...They lay them upon their heads as they travel, with tho peaked end i'ovcmost, which is convenient to make their way through die houghs and thickets. When... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 страници
...broad and large, that it will cover fifteen or twenty men, and keep them dry when it rains ;' that ' the whole leaf spread out is round almost like a circle ; but that it folds close like a lady's fan, and then it is no bigger than a man's arm, and extremely light;'... | |
 | Sir George Barrow (2d bart.) - 1857 - 220 страници
...close like a lady's fan, and then it is no bigger than a man's arm : it is wonderfully light; they cut them into pieces and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf spread is round, almost like a circle, but being cut in pieces for use are near like unto a triangle : they... | |
 | Sophy Moody - 1864 - 474 страници
...fold close like a lady's fan, and then it is no bigger than a man's arm. It is wonderfully light. They cut them into pieces, and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf spread is round, almost like a circle; but being cut in pieces for use. are near like unto a triangle. They... | |
 | Alan Walters - 1892 - 340 страници
...close like a lady's fan, and then it is no bigger than a man's arm ; it is wonderfully light ; they cut them into pieces and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf spread is round almost like a circle, but being cut in pieces for use are near like unto a triangle ; they... | |
 | Henry William Cave - 1894 - 244 страници
...close like a lady's fan, and then it is no bigger than a man's arm. It is wonderfully light ; they cut them into pieces and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf spread is round almost like a circle, but being cut in pieces for use are near like unto a triangle ; they... | |
 | Henry William Cave - 1900 - 504 страници
...close like a lady's fan, and then it is no bigger than a man's arm. It is wonderfully light ; they cut them into pieces and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf-spread is round almost like a circle, but being cut in pieces for use are near like unto a triangle... | |
 | Robert Knox - 1911 - 590 страници
...fold close like a Ladies Fan, and then it is no bigger than a mans arm. It is wonderful light, they cut them into pieces, and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf spread is round almost like a Circle, but being cut in pieces for use are near like unto a Triangle : They... | |
 | Henry W. Cave - 1994 - 502 страници
...close like a lady's fan, and then it is no bigger than a man's arm. It is wonderfully light ; they cut them into pieces and carry them in their hands. The whole leaf-spread is round almost like a circle, but being cut in pieces for use are near like unto a triangle... | |
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