This last article appears very scarce, the ravines affording none, and our dried salmon and kamas bread were eaten unmoistened.
The plain is a beautiful level one of about a mile over, hemmed in by low, rocky hills, and in spring, the pretty blue flowers of the Kamas are said to give it a peculiar, and very pleasing appearance.
Those who were the best supplied, had nothing more than the fragments of a few sturgeons and lamprey eels, kamas bread, &c.
All the industrious and enterprising men of this tribe are away trading salmon, kamas root, &c.
Two squaws from this family, visited us soon after, bringing some large kamas cakes and fermented roots, which we purchased of them.
Their principal food is the kamas root, and the seed obtained from a plant growing in the marshes of the lake, resembling, before hulled, a broom-corn seed.
Kamas after coming from the kiln is 'made into large cakes, by being mashed, and pressed together, and slightly baked in the sun.
She had distracted her mind from the bitterness of sorrow by trading in kamas and magic herbs, and had thus acquired a genteel competence.
He was hungry, and felt for his bag of kamas and pouch of smokeleaves.
Among these are kamas root (Camassia esculenta), which is highly esteemed; the bulb has a sweet pleasant flavor, somewhat of the taste of preserved quince.
He felt hungry, and made a hearty breakfast of the chestnut-like bulbs of the kamas root, and took a smoke.
He found the first stone shaped like a salmon head; the second like a kamas root, and the third, to his great joy, was the carven image of an elk's head.
The whole spot was thick with kamas plants, strangely out of place on the mountainside, and overhead grew a large arbutus tree, with glistening leaves, ripe for smoking.
He was hungry, and felt for his bag of kamas and pouch of smoke-leaves.
This morning we breakfasted on yampah, and had only kamas for supper; but a cup of good coffee still distinguished us from our Digger acquaintances.
It was long afterwards, on our return through Upper California, that I found the plant itself in bloom, which I supposed to furnish the kamas root, (camassia esculenta.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kamas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
