Curiosities and wonders of the vegetable kingdom1849 |
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... called a cocal , have a neat and regular appearance , though the frequent stripping of the leaves , which are reproduced but slowly , reduces it almost to a naked brushwood . The time of gathering the leaves depends upon the greater or ...
... called a cocal , have a neat and regular appearance , though the frequent stripping of the leaves , which are reproduced but slowly , reduces it almost to a naked brushwood . The time of gathering the leaves depends upon the greater or ...
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... called ) from the enjoyment of this vice , for it is universally declared that he would sooner forego the use of every thing than this . A workman of the com- mon class , particularly if he be a real Indian , daily consumes from an ...
... called ) from the enjoyment of this vice , for it is universally declared that he would sooner forego the use of every thing than this . A workman of the com- mon class , particularly if he be a real Indian , daily consumes from an ...
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... , here styled the Captain , is a slave . Each gang has also one person belonging to it , called the Huntsman , who is generally selected from the most intelligent of his fellows , and his chief oc- THE MAHOGANY TREE . 39.
... , here styled the Captain , is a slave . Each gang has also one person belonging to it , called the Huntsman , who is generally selected from the most intelligent of his fellows , and his chief oc- THE MAHOGANY TREE . 39.
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... called in this country the bush , to find employment for the whole . Accordingly , about the beginning of August , the Huntsman is dispatched on his important errand , and , if the owner be employed upon his own ground , this is seldom ...
... called in this country the bush , to find employment for the whole . Accordingly , about the beginning of August , the Huntsman is dispatched on his important errand , and , if the owner be employed upon his own ground , this is seldom ...
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Curiosities. their noted poison . The Upas tree , as it was called , was described as being of an enormous size , rising from the ground in countless trunks ,. LEAF AND FRUIT OF THE UPAS TREE . THE COCO - NUT TREE . 54 VEGETABLE KINGDOM .
Curiosities. their noted poison . The Upas tree , as it was called , was described as being of an enormous size , rising from the ground in countless trunks ,. LEAF AND FRUIT OF THE UPAS TREE . THE COCO - NUT TREE . 54 VEGETABLE KINGDOM .
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accused æther Antiaris toxicaria appearance Araucaria Areca Bamboo BANYAN bark beautiful becomes black pepper blossoms boiled bottle branches butter calabash called caoutchouc capsicum Ceylon Chinese Cingalese Coca Coco-nut tree Coquero covered Cow Tree dried drink eight employed Europeans exudes feet fibres Ficus elastica fire flower fluid forest frequently fruit Gamboge ground grows hard inches Indian inhabitants island Jaggery juice kernel kind known labour leaf leaves logs Mahogany Mahogany tree milk natives orange colour ordeal ornaments palm pieces plant poison prepared present procured produce properties purpose quantity Radama Rafflesia Rafflesia Arnoldi rain resembling resin rice ripe river roads root seed shoots shrub skin smell soon South America species spot stem substance Swietenia Talipot tallow Tanghien taste thick tion traveller trucks trunk Upas tree Van Diemen's Land varnish vegetable wood yields young
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Page 21 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 138 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 94 - With transport touches all the springs of life. Nature, attend ! join every living soul Beneath the spacious temple of the sky, In adoration join ; and ardent raise One general song! To Him, ye vocal gales, Breathe soft, whose spirit in your freshness breathes. Oh, talk of Him in solitary glooms, Where o'er the rock the scarcely waving pine Fills the brown shade with a religious awe.
Page 61 - Banjoowangee for cultivation, it is with much difficulty the inhabitants can be made to approach the tree, as they dread the cutaneous eruption which it is known to produce when newly cut down. But except when the tree is largely wounded, or when it is felled, by which a large portion of the juice is disengaged, the effluvia of which mixing with the atmosphere, affects the persons exposed to it with the symptoms just mentioned, the tree may be approached and ascended like the other common trees in...
Page 54 - O'er ten square leagues his far-diverging heads; Or in one trunk entwists his tangled form, Looks o'er the clouds, and hisses in the storm. Steep'd in fell poison, as his sharp teeth part, A thousand tongues in quick vibration dart; Snatch the proud Eagle towering o'er the heath, Or pounce the Lion, as he stalks beneath; Or strew...
Page 64 - ... are likewise added. These he commonly has in store, for when he kills a snake he generally extracts the fangs and keeps them by him. Having thus found the necessary ingredients, he scrapes the wourali vine and bitter root into thin shavings and puts them into a kind of colander made of leaves. This he holds over an earthen pot, and pours water on the shavings: the liquor which comes through has the appearance of coffee. When a sufficient quantity has been procured the shavings are thrown aside....
Page 41 - ... at which he aims. On some occasions, no ordinary stratagem is necessary to be resorted to by the huntsman to prevent others from availing themselves of the advantage of his discoveries ; for, if his steps be traced by those who may be engaged in the same pursuit, which is a very common thing, all his ingenuity must be exerted to beguile them from the true track.
Page 128 - The base of the inner leaves of the grass tree (Xanthorrhce^a arborea) is not to be despised by the hungry. The aborigines beat off the heads of these singular plants by striking them about the top of the trunk with a large stick; they then strip off the outer leaves and cut away the inner ones, leaving about an inch and a half of the white tender portion joining the trunk; this portion they eat raw or roasted ; and it is far from disagreeable in flavour, having a nutty taste, slightly balsamic.
Page 40 - Each gang of slaves has one belonging to it, who is styled the huntsman. He is generally selected from the most intelligent of his fellows, and his chief occupation is to search the woods, or as in this country it is termed, the bush, to find labour for the whole.
Page 177 - ... more), I soon detached it and removed it to our hut. To tell you the truth, had I been alone, and had there been no witnesses, I should I think have been fearful of mentioning the dimensions of this flower, so much does it exceed every flower I have ever seen or heard of; but I had Sir Stamford and Lady Raffles with me, and a Mr.