Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vols. I and II
At two o'clock, under a brilliant moonlight, and with a single guide, we started for the Pacific. The road was level and wooded. We passed a trapiche or sugar-mill, worked by oxen, and before daylight reached the village of Masagua, four leagues distant, built in a clearing cut out of the woods, at the entrance of which we stopped under a grove of orange-trees, and by the light of the moon filled our pockets and alforgas with the shining fruit. Daylight broke upon us in a forest of gigantic trees, from seventy-five to a hundred feet high, and from twenty to twenty-five feet in circumference, with creepers winding around their trunks and hangi…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60520-447-5
- EAN: 9781605204475
- Produktnummer: 8408792
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 824 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B15.9 cm x D5.3 cm 1'405 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 1405
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