 | William Hickling Prescott - 1855 - 584 sider
...scarcely able to drag their limbs along the soil broken up and saturated with the moisture. After sonio months of toilsome travel, in which they had to cross many a morass and mountain stream, they at length reached Canelas, the Land of Cinnamon.3 They saw the trees bearing... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1866 - 494 sider
...spice-trees. Their produce resembled the cinnamon of the East in taste, but was of inferior quality. They saw the trees bearing the precious bark spreading out into broad forests; yet, however valuable it might be for future commerce, it was of but little worth to them. But, from the savages whom they... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight - 1900 - 328 sider
...toil, were scarcely able to drag their limbs along the soil broken up and saturated with the moisture. After some months of toilsome travel, in which they had to cross many a morass and mountain stream, they at length reached Canelas, the Land of Cinnamon. They saw the trees bearing the... | |
 | William H. Prescott - 2005 - 573 sider
...toil, were scarcely able to drag their limbs along the soil broken up and saturated with the moisture. After some months of toilsome travel, in which they had to cross many a morass and mountain stream, they at length reached Canelas, the Land of Cinnamon.8 They saw the trees bearing... | |
 | William H. Prescott - 2006 - 573 sider
...toil, were scarcely able to drag their limbs along the soil broken up and saturated with the moisture, After some months of toilsome travel, in which they had to cross many a morass and mountain stream, they at length reached Canelas, the Land of Cinnamon.8 They saw the trees bearing... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 438 sider
...toil, were scarcely able to drag their limbs along the soil broken up and saturated with the moisture. After some months of toilsome travel, in which they...had to cross many a morass and mountain-stream, they at length reached Canelas, the Land of Cinnamon.8 They saw the trees bearing the precious bark, spreading... | |
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For more than six weeks the deluge continued unabated, and the forlorn wanderers, wet, and weary with incessant toil, were scarcely able to drag their limbs along the soil broken up and saturated with the moisture. After some months of toilsome travel,... 