Scarcely any habitation but a few Indian cane-huts by the way-side, with bananas and palm-trees.
This plant requires scarcely any labour in its cultivation; and, according to the most moderate estimate, taking an acre of wheat against an acre of bananas, the bananas will support twenty times as many people as the wheat.
Bananas are to be found at an elevation of 9,000 feet, three times the height at which they ceased on the eastern slope, as we came up from Vera Cruz.
Growth has been uneven in recent years because of fluctuations in prices for Ecuador's primary exports - oil and bananas - as well as because of government policies designed to curb inflation.
The frozen fruit has been already given,--a mixture of sliced oranges and bananas with a foamy sauce poured over; it is served in sherbet cups, or in candy flowers.
The salad is made by cutting bananas in halves, and then cutting each half into strips no larger than a knitting needle; these are to be arranged on lettuce with French dressing poured over the last thing before serving.
This menu omits the sherbet and gives a rather solid meat course; it may be varied by substituting chops for the duckling and adding a course of frozen oranges and bananas in lemon ice.
A monkey chattered on the balcony, sliding up and down the bamboo-pole, or reaching for pieces of bananas which the boarders passed him from the dinner-table.
A phalanx of barefooted waiters stood in line to take the plates when we had finished the respective courses, broth, mutton stew, and chicken, and bananas for dessert.
Dinner, however, was a more elaborate affair, consisting of a dozen courses, which began with soup and ended with bananas or the customary cheese and guava.
One can not starve to death as long as the bananasand the cocoanuts hold out.
He could give you a recipe for making poi from ripe bananas and the milk of cocoanuts, or for distilling whisky from fermented oranges,--both of which formulas I have unfortunately lost.
The native women, squatting on the ground, were selling mangoes and bananas to the boys.
This, too, is sent away from the country in ships, as well as coffee and mahogany, bananas and rubber.
There are great piles of cocoanuts and bananasheaped upon the ground.
Among the trees were the broad leaves of bananas and palms, the fling of leafy vines.
The messenger returned after a few moments carrying a bunch of the small eating bananaswhich she laid at our feet.
The good effect of this order was visible next morning, when, instead of comparatively useless articles, the natives brought off bananas and cocoanuts in abundance, and some pigs and fowls.
St. Lucia is subject to periodic droughts and/or tropical storms, and its protected market agreement with the UK for bananas may end in 1992.
The practice had been to weigh the bananas when transferred from the steamers at New Orleans to the cars, and to levy the freight rate upon this weight.
The Topeka banana dealers in 1908 complained that bananas en route from New Orleans were subject to an appreciable shrinkage in weight, amounting to about six hundred pounds per car.
Bananas and oranges, alone or together, are served on lettuce with the cream salad dressing, as are also the skinned and seeded white grapes.
Banana fritters can be made from the bananasas sold in this country, and it is a mistake to think that when they are black outside they are bad.
Apples, oranges, currants, pine-apple, and bananas are sometimes served as salads with syrup and sugar.
On the slope behind the beach we saw for the first time signs of cultivation--in a small plantation of bananas and yams.
Some sweet-potatoes and bananas were given in return for various presents.
May 10 Haricot Soup Rice Fritters Tomatoes au Gratin *Baked Bananas Bread Cheese Coffee *Baked Bananas--Remove skins from 7 bananasand cut in halves lengthwise.
Instead of the orange and lemon groves, the bananas and figs of Monterey, with the languid smokes of sugar-houses rising in the distance, the soldiers beheld fields of wheat and oats, and orchards of cherries and apples.
Bananas are grown particularly in the region about Nipe, Gibara and Baracoa, whence they are exported in large quantities, though there is a tendency to lessen their culture in these parts in favour of sugar.
This district, including the finest land, is on the southern slope of the Organ Mountains between the Honda river and Mantua; bananas are cultivated with the tobacco.
In these receptacles are put yams and taro, upon their upright poles are hung bananas and upon their cross-pieces of wood are hung lengths of sugar-cane; all this being done by the families of the children.
Bananas are planted by men, this being done every year, and off and on all through the year, generally in old potato gardens.
At night, a double gas jet blew in the wind just outside, deepening the contrasts, the oranges with the dull earth brown of the potatoes, the bright yellow bananas with the sheen of blue on the green cabbages!
Cut three bananas in length-wise halves and lay them in a mould wet with cold water, cover with one-half the jelly and put the mould on ice till jelly is set, then slice three more and pour on remainder of jelly.
Plantains are used on a large scale in all tropical countries, much more so than the yellow and red bananas which are familiar enough in northern markets.
When the monkey learned that the bananas were ripe, he went to visit his friend the turtle.
It was not strange that the monkey's part died, while that of the turtle brought forth clusters of ripe bananas in time.
Bryant shared the bananas with his companion, and both fell to without delay.
Having finished their bananas the two boys walked on slowly, stopping now and then to speak to an acquaintance or to look at the contents of the various barrows.
What is the least number of bananas that a mother can exactly divide between her 2 sons, or among her 4 daughters, or among all her children?
How many bananas will they need if each of the 32 children has two bananas?
Simple meals of rice and bananas progress round cooking-pots of burnished copper.
The last several packages of dried bananas were stored in them, as well as the instruments of the officers.
No cocoanuts nor bananas were to be seen, though dense, tropic vegetation overran everything, dripping in airy festoons from the sheer lips of the precipices and running riot in all the crannied ledges.
The cocoanuts and bananas were chopped down, the taro gardens uprooted, and the pigs and chickens killed.
On both sides, between the fore and main shrouds, guys had been stretched, just low enough for the foreboom to swing clear; and from each of these guys at least fifty bunches of bananas were suspended.
McCoy, who was making a breakfast off fried bananas and a mug of water.
She did offend, and then Mr. Anderson would smuggle biscuits and bananas to her, with, she was confident, the connivance of his wife.
