gum-copal

A trader desirous to make a journey into the interior, whether for slaves or ivory, gum-copal, or orchilla weed, proposes to a Banyan to advance him $5,000, at 50,

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Bagdad had great silk bazaars, Zanzibar has her ivory bazaars; Bagdad once traded in jewels, Zanzibar trades in gum-copal; Stamboul imported Circassian and Georgian slaves;

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

To this market come the gum-copal, the hides, the orchilla weed, the timber, and the black slaves from Africa.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

'What have you said to Maclean, Maris & Co., about the gum-copal?'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

In a partition wall cut an aperture of any size; for example, four feet in length and two in breadth, so that the lower edge may be about five feet from the floor, and cover it with white Italian gauze, varnished with gum-copal.

Entertainments for Home, Church and School Frederica Seeger

The tax led to constant fighting, until at last the officials gave up the effort and imposed a requisition of food or gum-copal; the change seems to have been satisfactory there and in other parts where it has been tried.

The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) John Holland Rose 1898

Livingstone makes valuable observations on plants useful in the arts, such as gum-copal, papyrus, cotton, india-rubber, and the palm-oil tree; while in the latter, his notices of “carnivorous plants,” which catch insects that probably yield nourishment to the plant, of silicified wood and the like, show how carefully he watched all that throws light on the life and changes of plants.

The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880

The gum-copal tree is here a mere bush, and no digging takes place for the gum: it is called Mchenga, and yields gum when wounded, as also bark, cloth, and cordage when stripped.

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

The language of the people here is Swaheli; they trade a little in gum-copal and Orchilla weed.

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

Very little is done in the way of trade; some sorghum, sem-sem seed, gum-copal, and orchilla weed, constitute the commerce of the port: I saw two Banian traders settled here.

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