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  • All we can see, as we first turn up the path, is a patch of kokos of tremendous size on our right.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • So after futile attempts to call the other two back, we go on down the S.E. one, and get shortly into a plantation of giant kokos mid-leg deep in most excellent fine mould — the sort of stuff you pay 6 shillings a load for in England to start a conservatory bed with.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • Next to sweet-potatoes, the premier abomination to walk through, give me kokos for good all-round tryingness, particularly when they are wet, as is very much the case now.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • So after futile attempts to call the other two back, we go on down the S.E. one, and get shortly into a plantation of giant kokos mid-leg deep in most excellent fine mould -- the sort of stuff you pay 6 shillings a load for in England to start a conservatory bed with.

    Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

  • All we can see, as we first turn up the path, is a patch of kokos of tremendous size on our right.

    Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

  • Next to sweet-potatoes, the premier abomination to walk through, give me kokos for good all-round tryingness, particularly when they are wet, as is very much the case now.

    Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

  • (_Jatropha manihot_) and the sweet variety (_Jatropha janipha_); garlic; kokos (_Colocasia esculenta_); potatoes, which the steamers are beginning to bring from England, not from

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • My little boy may have three big brothers but he still adores all the other kokos who are my eldest son's college mates.

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