Pencroft searched in vain for some of those precious palm-trees which are employed in so many ways in domestic life, and which have been found as far as the fortieth parallel in the Northern Hemisphere, and to the thirty-fifth only in the Southern Hemisphere.
Pencroff buscaba en vano algunas palmeras que se prestan a tantos usos en la vida doméstica, y cuya presencia ha sido señalada hasta el paralelo cuarenta en el hemisferio boreal y hasta en el treinta y cinco solamente en el hemisferio austral.