Camwood is also very plentiful, but owing to its great weight and the inconvenience at present of transportation, it does not enter extensively into the commerce of these parts, except as dyestuffs in the native markets.
On the first day following the tax palaver Bosambo went down the river with four canoes, each canoe painted beautifully with camwood and gum, and with twenty-four paddlers.
This they smeared with a paint made by the admixture ofcamwood and copal gum.
But if he buy a slave, this latter commodity will not only walk, but bring a load of camwood on his back.
And Cuffe writes back: "The camwood is stored in New York, six families in Boston and a considerable number in New York want to go over.
Cuffe imported camwood and squills when he returned in 1816, but neither sold well.
Abner Gifford made a small sale of camwood in Albany but the bulk of it was sold by Hicks Jenkins and Company of New York.
For a rich mild red colour, rectified spirits of naphtha, dyed with camwood dust, or an oily decoction of alkanet-root.
The varieties of timber chiefly exported from the West African timber ports are Oldfieldia Africana, of splendid size and texture, commonly called mahogany, but really teak, Bar and Camwood and Ebony.
Amongst old Spanish furniture you will find things made fromCamwood that are a joy to the eye.
The natives are energetic traders, and have agents at Stanley Pool and points further down the river, to whom they consign their ivory and camwood powder, very much as if they were Europeans or Americans.
The inhabitants are experts in the manufacture of pottery and camwood powder and carry on a large ivory trade with the Watwa dwarfs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "camwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
