Tropical trees

Usage examples of balsas.

There was no report that the engine had been stolen, but Senor Balsas was linked to a known associate that set a blinker flashing in an office of the Texas Western Federal Judicial District headquarters, SanTone Ringcity.

He was not so well connected in the hated country to the north, where Sorel's name and his known associates were on record, including one Cipriano Balsas.

According to the records, Senor Balsas did not draw a breath or scratch himself unless Felix Sorel told him to do so.

They consisted in most places of cold-hardened balsas and other very rapidly growing tropical trees, creating new canopies over older krummholz.

At riverbanks they struck complicated bargains with Indians, naked except for loincloths and lines of tattooed dots on their faces, and were towed across on balsas made of planks lashed across bundles of air-filled calabashes, while other Indians back-carried the burros across fords.