Travels in Central America: Including Accounts of Some Regions Unexplored Since the ConquestLeypoldt, Holt & Williams, 1871 - 430 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 414 - Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain unto it.
الصفحة 129 - ... which neutralizes the venom of serpents. He finds out the shady dells where the cacao flourishes, and the sunny eminences where the bees go to deposit their honey in the hollow trunks of decaying trees. He learns, or is taught, all these things early, and then his education is complete.
الصفحة 129 - He is taught to find his way in the most obscure forests, through means of the faintest indications. His ear is practised in quickly detecting the approach of wild animals, and his eye in discovering the venomous reptiles that may lie in his path. He is taught to distinguish the vines, the juices of which have the power of stupefying fishes so that they may be caught by hand, as also those which are useful for their flexibility, or for furnishing water to the wayfarer. He soon comes to recognize...
الصفحة xii - Within its depths, far off on some unknown tributary of the Usumasinta, the popular tradition of Guatemala and Chiapas places that great aboriginal city, with its white walls shining like silver in the sun, which the cura of Quiche affirmed to Mr. Stephens he had seen, with his own eyes, from the tops of the mountains of Quesaltenango.
الصفحة 414 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit, or whither shall I flee from thy presence ? If I ascend up to heaven, thou art there : If I make my bed in hell, behold thou art there.