Though the adjacent country is fertile, its prosperity has greatly declined, and the exports of coffee, sugar, cacao and forest products are much less important than formerly.
Of this there survived later only an annual cavalcade, when the members of the Basoche went to the royal forest of Bondy to cut the maypole, which they afterwards set up in the court-yard of the Palais.
Barotseland may be described as a series of heavy white sand undulations covered with subtropical forest vegetation.
On the west they are bounded by the Congo Forest and the Manyema genus (No.
Some tribes speaking Bantu languages are dwarfs or dwarfish, and belong to the group of Forest Pygmies.
The Kibira dialects of the north-eastern Congo Forest (Ituri district) may perhaps be placed in this section.
From the Pic des Escaliers, which rises above the forest of Iraty, the Bidouze descends northwards; while the forest, though situated on the southern slope of the chain, forms a part of French territory.
Having already met a doe and a bear, he naturally inferred that he would not be likely to meet any other of the elusive kindreds of the wild, even in a whole week of forest faring.
Gradually, however, the clean air and the deodorizing forest scents made him once more tolerable to himself.
The killing of so redoubtable an adversary as the weasel must have become known, in some mysterious fashion, for thenceforward no more of the small marauders of the forest ventured to challenge the new lordship of the clearing.
At first, because of the noise he made, the forest seemed to him to be empty of all living things but birds.
After perhaps an hour the wood-road led out of the thick forestacross a little wild meadow with a shallow brook babbling softly through it.
After ten minutes or so of stillness and emptiness, the forest began to come alive.
But nothing touched him; and the next moment there broke out an astounding uproar behind him, a very pandemonium of roars and windy gruntings, while the crashing of the bushes was as if the forest were being subdued beneath a steam-roller.
Something there was in it which called him away irresistibly into the dark, unfenced depths of the forest which surrounded the clearing.
Then, eyeing the wreckage keenly, he gave a shrill, triumphant crow, which rang through the early morning stillness of the forest like a challenge.
The mingled shadows of the forest were confusing, of course, but his trained eyes knew how to differentiate them.
Indeed, had he striven for concealment, his brilliant colouring, so out of key with the forest gloom, would have made it almost impossible.
For a good hour Murray followed the trail of the two bears, at times with some difficulty, as the forest gave way in places to breadths of hard and stony barren, where the great pads left smaller trace.
Do you remember, in the right foreground forest trees, on the left a herd of cows and geese?
Or, tired of lying still, he goes to the hayfield, or to the forest for mushrooms, or watches the peasants catching fish with a net.
He imagined a string of pilgrims, a hut in the forest with one little window shining in the darkness; he stands before the window, begs for a night's lodging.
Aberdeen; Forest of Dromouchty on Inverness border eastward of Loch Ericht; Glenmore, co-extensive with Caledonian Canal.
The scenes are desert now, and bare Where flourish'd once a forest fair, When these waste glens with copse were lined, And peopled with the hart and hind.
Not here need my desponding rhyme Lament the ravages of time, As erst by Newark's riven towers, 35 And Ettrick stripp'd of forest bowers.
This is an ambiguous phrase, and may mean either a forestwell cloathed with wood, or well stript of it.
Such hands will always find something to do--with more to follow; for the word and the deed are like the forest and the rain: the forest attracts the rain, and the rain makes the forest grow.
Windekind taught him that, on such a still autumn day, while Johannes dreamily inhaled the faint odor of the forest soil.
And above these, delicate and daring, soared a convergence of groinings, with a maze of exquisite spires and pinnacles, resembling a forest of stalagmites.
Then they ventured farther into the forest that lay behind the houses.
When night fell, and the shadows of the trees were intermingled in one general obscurity, that mysterious forest life did not cease.
But over all rang the warbling and chattering of birds, from out the forest shade.
The forest was more open there, and the sun shone in upon a grassy, flower-covered spot.
Suddenly, as though it had rained down, a forest of big black toadstools appeared.
They entered the forest of columns, and Johannes continued to follow the trio closely.
The table stood on a little stage between side-scenes that represented a forest by moonlight.
I drove back to Blois in the dark, some nine miles, through the forest of Russy, which belongs to the State and which, though consisting apparently of small timber, looked under the stars sufficiently vast and primeval.
There we met foresters from the Peloncillo forest reserve.
Looking up, she saw they were at the head of a canyon that yawned beneath and widened its gray-walled, green-patched slopes down to a black forest of fir.
Then there came a respite from the steep climb, and the way led in a winding course through a matted, storm-wrenched forest of stunted trees.
At last, when the canyon opened into a level forest of firs, the sun was setting red in the west.
She saw him gaze furtively into the forest on all sides.
Madeline saw a beautiful forest in the center of the valley toward the south.
They divided attention between the satisfying of ravenous appetites and a vigilant watching down the forest aisles.
Fast riding through the forest along a crooked, obstructed trail called forth all her alertness.
The level of the forest began to be cut up by little hollows, all of which sloped and widened.
Indeed, once they had commenced to thread the mazes of the foresthe found that he had all he could do to follow the lead of the lame boy who served as guide to the expedition.
I wonder has any forest fire ever started in that same way?
He hoped they would not have the ill luck to witness a forest fire.
Rob, already commencing to pull his shoes on as fast as he could, so that he might creep out from the wreckage of the brush shanty and prevent a forest fire from starting.
In and out of the aisles of the forest a moving object came pattering along.
He was one day travelling alone on horseback from Bala, in Merionethshire, to Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, and as he approached a forest which lay in his way he was dogged by a murderous-looking man carrying a sharp sickle.
This is the forest pimeval; the murmuring pines and the hemlocks.
You get instead the forest and its beauty; you get tender idylls of domestic life.
With that the battle-fury came on Conchobar, and he fell to destroying the trees of the forest with his sword.
Here we are amidst the drowsy hum of bees, the flowering of large Indian forest blossoms, the scent of the jasmine in bloom; it is what Keats would have written, had his nightingale sung in an Indian jungle.
It is a faery piece: begining in the morning calm and forest magic; then permitting passion to rise, and sadness to follow; ending in the crystal and blue clearness of the upper air.
The Unseen, with all its mystery and awe or loveliness, was the very nearly visible: not a pass nor lake nor moor nor forest but was crowded with the things of which wonder is made.
You come away with an impression of the beauty of the forest through which the Fenians wandered and camped, and less with an impression of the personalities of the Fenians themselves.
On one occasion this lady was hurrying by night through a forest, and the forest took fire; she escaped, but not until the heat singed the cloak in which the baby boy in her arms was wrapped.
Thus he continued to wander through forest and wood for several days without eating, and almost despairing of his life from the pressure of hunger.
When they had done this they went into the woods to a small forest of firs, where they made an enclosure in the form of a triangle, closed up on two sides and open on one.
While an ember still glows in the dead ashes, the forest may yet be fired.
He and all the rest are away with the cattle that are hidden in the Ceza Forest out of reach of the white men, so the huts are empty.
As I expected would be the case, Zikali informed the military authorities of the secret hiding-place in the Ingome Forest where he suggested to Cetewayo that he should refuge.
What is the hurry, King, seeing that the forest is far away?
With the name of Hamburg, the idea of seaport is associated; and one can see at its harbor a forest of masts, but is greatly astonished when he learns the sea is one hundred kilometres distant.
A splendid forest of trees covered the hilltop, not trimmed and cut into allées of arches, as we too frequently see on this side of the Atlantic.
When he saw old Granny Fox, Danny's heart beat a little faster than before, for he knew that Granny Fox is very smart and very wise and has learned most of the tricks of all the other little meadow and forest people.
Why couldn't I have been content with all the good things that were mine in the Green Forest and on the Green Meadows?
Over in the Green Forest Hooty the Owl had had poor hunting, and he was feeling cross.
He had watched Ol' Mistah Buzzard go up, up, up, until he was nothing but a tiny speck, and Danny had wondered how it would seem to be way up above the Green Meadows and the Green Forest and look down.
Now you go off to the Green Forest and keep out of sight," said Granny Fox.
The Dyak natives believe that these monkeys are a race of men who have fled to the forest in order to avoid the payment of taxes!
The monkeys of Northern Africa come down from their places of concealment in the forest and rob the gardens of the people, carrying off the fruit by wholesale.
After a few struggles they seemed to understand their position and they commenced to fill the forest with roars and cries of despair.
Captain Mayne Reid gives an interesting account," said Mr. Graham, "of how monkeys in the tropical forest of America cross a stream.
The coordinates on the lat-don dial had almost lined up, though the forest was still completely unbroken below.
Two men in white cloaks were carrying a third figure between them, just entering the pine forest at the further edge.
He started off through the forestusing the unfamiliar Terran compass.
V Sanctuary THE dim road which rises through the middle of the night-bound wood is so strangely full of obstructing shadows that the deep darkness of the forest itself might by some magic have overflowed upon it.
The natural home of the wild cat is a dense forest abounding in deep thickets and game.
When fruit and nuts are ripe it visits the gardens of villages, but only when they are connected with the forest by small tracts of trees or bushes.
During the prevalence of the greatest heat of the day, which was 94 degrees, we again set forward, and passed over a gently undulated surface, supporting an open forest of young and scrub oak, intermixed with hickory.
He at length ascended a considerable hill which commanded a view of the country around, from which he had the satisfaction to see a column of smoke rising above the forest at a distance.
The acacia (robinia pseudoacacia), the honey locust, and the ohio aesculus are among the forest trees, but are confined to the low grounds.
The cotton-wood varies in magnitude in proportion to the fertility of the soil; and on the Ohio, the Mississippi, and the Arkansa, it attains the size of our largest forest trees.
The corporal went to the forest for the purpose of killing a deer, and it was not long before an Indian, who accompanied him, pointed out one of those animals in a favourable situation.
The broad hills, swelling gently one above another as they recede from the river, are diversified with nearly the same intermixture of field and forest as in the most highly cultivated portions of the eastern states.
South from Châtillon, across the great forest of the same name, one of the great national forests of France so paternally cared for by the Minister for Agriculture, is the actual source of the Seine.
Only the coteaux, the low-lying hillsides, where the vines are chiefly grown, are bare of forest growth.
Over same flat pollarded forest until we reached the Kalongwesé Kiver on the right bank, and about a quarter of a mile east of the confluence of the Luéna or Kisaka.
Through scraggy bush, then open forest with short grass, over a broad rill and on good path to village Mwaro; chief Kamirambo.
When at last we got out of the forest and crossed the Liya on to the cleared lands near the villages of Monan-bundwa, we lay down to rest, and soon saw Muanampunda coming, walking up in a stately manner unarmed to meet us.
Scarcely a day has passed without rain and thunder since we left Tanganyika Across a flat forest again, meeting a caravan for Ujiji.
The two men from whom it came appeared in an opening in the forest only ten yards off and bolted, one looking back over his shoulder as he ran.
Our men climbed over and opened them, but I gave the order to move forward through flat forest till we came to a running rivulet of about twenty feet, but with 100 yards of sponge on each side.
The forest was a dense mass, without a bit of ground to be seen except a patch on the S.
Off through open forest for three hours east, then cook, and go on east another three hours, over very rough rocky, hilly country.
Wood-smoke mists the naked moor; Dead leaves shroud the forest floor; When the white frosts cross the threshold, Summer softly shuts the door.
Where the sun drifts down from overhead (Tangled gleams in the scarlet bed), Rush of wings through the forest aisle-- And the leaves are a brighter red.
The woods are drenched with moonlight and every leafs awake; The little beads of dew sit white on every twig and blade; A thousand stars are scattered thick beneath the forest lake; We pass--with only laughter for the havoc we have made.
Had I west that beforen, At Notynggam when we wer, Thow scholde not com yn feyr forest Of all thes thowsande eyr.
Oh, come ye here to part your land, The bonnie Forest thorough?
And so meat bringeth might again, and on the grass thereby, Fulfilled with fat of forest deer and ancient wine, they lie.
