buaze

Its quartz hills are covered with trees and gigantic grasses; the buaze, a small forest-tree, grows abundantly; it is a species of polygala; its beautiful clusters of sweet-scented pinkish flowers perfume the air with a rich fragrance; its seeds produce a fine drying oil, and the bark of the smaller branches yields a fibre finer and stronger than flax; with which the natives make their nets for fishing.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Some find employment in weaving neat baskets from split bamboos, and others collect the fibre of the buaze, which grows abundantly on the hills, and make it into fish-nets.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

From the numbers of aged persons we saw on the highlands, and the increase of mental and physical vigour we experienced on our ascent from the lowlands, we inferred that the climate was salubrious, and that our countrymen might there enjoy good health, and also be of signal benefit, by leading the multitude of industrious inhabitants to cultivate cotton, buaze, sugar, and other valuable produce, to exchange for goods of

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

The buaze-trees and bamboos are now seen on the hills; but the jujube or zisyphus, which has evidently been introduced from India, extends no further up the river.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Many men and boys are employed in gathering the buaze, in preparing the fibre, and in making it into long nets.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

The women are decidedly plain; but monopolize all the buaze cloth.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

Men and women and children engage in field labour, but at present many of the men are engaged in spinning buaze [29] and cotton.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

The buaze-trees and bamboos are now seen on the hills; but the jujube or zisyphus, which has evidently been introduced from India, extends no further up the river.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843

From the numbers of aged persons we saw on the highlands, and the increase of mental and physical vigour we experienced on our ascent from the lowlands, we inferred that the climate was salubrious, and that our countrymen might there enjoy good health, and also be of signal benefit, by leading the multitude of industrious inhabitants to cultivate cotton, buaze, sugar, and other valuable produce, to exchange for goods of

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843

Many men and boys are employed in gathering the buaze, in preparing the fibre, and in making it into long nets.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843