. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. The tropical vegetation of Africa is extremely rich and varied, andproduces food and other requisites of life without the need of muchexertion on the part of the people. The Date Palm (1), in the southernSahara, in Egypt, and part of the Soudan, is a predominant tree, espe-cially on sandy soil near springs. The Arabs make a great variety ofdishes which include dates. Very man
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. The tropical vegetation of Africa is extremely rich and varied, andproduces food and other requisites of life without the need of muchexertion on the part of the people. The Date Palm (1), in the southernSahara, in Egypt, and part of the Soudan, is a predominant tree, espe-cially on sandy soil near springs. The Arabs make a great variety ofdishes which include dates. Very many people subsist almost entirely on dates. The date stones arelargely pounded to feed leaves furnish baskets, fly-flaps, and brushes. The boughsform fences, the trunk is splitfor beams or for fire-wood ; thefibrous cortex is made intoropes. The Doum Palm (2),with its forked branches, isabundant in Egypt; and itsfruit, leaves, and wood are use-ful. In the Soudan and mostof tropical Africa, the giant Bao-bab (29) or Monkey Breadfruittree (Adansonia) is widespread;Some trunks are 80 to 100 feet in circumference, but their height is notin correspondence, for it does not exceed about eighty feet. We hear of. 8. IAPYnus, S). SESAME. I AFRICAN PLANTS. 701
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