The banks of all the rivers in Africa, which I have visited, are enclosed by impenetrable forests, marshes, and the closely combined mangrove tree, and it is but seldom that the land forms an uneven dry surface on their borders.
The finer portions are caught by the returning tide, and, accumulating by successive ebbs and flows, become, with the decaying vegetation, arrested by the mangrove roots.
We did not suffer more from fever in the mangrove swamps, where we inhaled so much of the heavy mousey smell that it was distinguishable in the odour of our shirts and flannels, than we did elsewhere.
The first twenty miles of the Kongone are enclosed in mangrove jungle; some of the trees are ornamented with orchilla weed, which appears never to have been gathered.
We saw but few natives, and these, by escaping from their canoes into the mangrove thickets the moment they caught sight of us, gave unmistakeable indications that they had no very favourable opinion of white men.
All were eager traders, and soon came off to the ship in light swift canoes with every kind of fruit and food they possessed; a few brought honey and beeswax, which are found in quantities in the mangrove forests.
A curious little blenny-fish swarms in the numerous creeks which intersect the mangrove topes.
The principal of these, which we named Mew River (after its first finder, the sergeant of marines on board) has its mouth in a small mangrove creek three quarters of a mile to the eastward of Evans Bay.
A small low wooded islet off Cape Direction, where I landed for a few hours, was found to be composed entirely of dead coral with thickets of mangrove and other bushes, and presented no feature worthy of further notice.
At present it is dry, with a few pools of fresh water, connected below with a mangroveswamp opening upon the beach by a narrow creek.
The shore is fringed with the usual maritime trees and bushes, and an extensive mangrove bed runs out upon the reef in one place.
Its appearance in 1839 is described as "an elevated reef, with one small mangrove growing on the highest part.
We found it to present the appearance of a wide creek running through low mangrove swamps, and with the eye could trace its windings for the distance of two or three miles.
The country, level and grassy, begins the region north of the great forest-zone which subtends the maritime mangrove swamps.
There are the same swampy borders and 'impenetrable forests,' as Captain Wyatt entitles them; while the mangrove never quite disappears from this true lagoon-stream.
The mounds and hillocks on either side, beginning with the Akromasi and Kabudwe mounds, near the mouth, are evidently parts of an ancient archipelago built by the mangrove and silted up to mainland.
In places the mangrovefallen from the banks had taken root in the river-bed.
We observed that the sea-water, along the whole coast, acquired a yellowish brown tint, wherever it came into contact with the mangrove trees.
The shore near the mouth of the small river Santa Catalina is bordered with mangrove trees,* but these mangroves are not sufficiently spread to diminish the salubrity of the air of Cumana.
Lastly, I set the wood and the roots of the mangrove thoroughly wetted, to act on a given volume of atmospheric air in a phial with a ground-glass stopple.
The wood and roots of the mangrove placed under water were exposed to the rays of the sun.
You have to wade through mangrove mud, the stench of which is enough to breed fever, and then climb a very steep ascent to the first camp.
I will conclude by saying that it will be some time before I again attempt to navigate my way through mangrove swamps, unless well provided with the necessaries of life.
The banks are lined with mangrove trees; beyond is a beautiful scrub, backed by mountains, with the Pacific Ocean glistening in the distance.
On the branches are numerous oysters, known by the name of mangrove oysters.
In the vicinity of mangrove swamps it is malarious, more especially if there are large expanses of reeking mud-flats exposed at low tide, alive with thousands of small crabs, which bore into the mud and let out the poisonous gases.
The bitter, eye-searing smoke from the red mangrove fire in the hold, where the meagre catch of yesterday was lying on a couple of trays, stung the nostrils.
Thence it leads through forest and jungle and mangrove belts to another river, and away south.
In a mangrove creek a shoal of barramundi had been bombed with dynamite.
One was in the form of an eagle's nest, and not nearly so large as that in which some eaglets are reared, made by interlacing branchlets of white mangrove until the mass was sufficient to support his weight.
A mangrove bittern sitting humpbacked on a root and roused from its night thoughts has flown ahead, following the bends of the stream until it crossed a familiar loop and so evaded incessant harrying.
When in full flight, the gin tripped over a mangrove root, and, spread-eagled, fell.
The water is a beech-leaf green and clear as glass; the laurel-hued mangrove trees grow far into the stream, their brown snake-like roots showing feet above the water.
The roar of the devouring elements out-voiced every other sound, even the terrified noises of the denizens of the mangrove forests as they fled from the glare that rivalled that of the sun.
Once again they plunged into the mangrove forest, following a beaten track that, judging by its well-worn condition, had been in existence long before the arrival of the Pelikan.
Ahead he could discern the dark outlines of the mangrove forest.
As soon as the sun had set behind the boundless mangrove forests the daring trio made their way to the spot where the canoe was lying.
Another detour was necessary, but on plunging into the mangrove forest on to the other side of the clearing the Irishman's foot tripped in the telephone wire.
Twice they halted before they crossed a foot-track through the mangrove forest.
It was then dark; we transferred to a smaller boat, and the same crew pulled us up through a channel in the middle of Mangrove Islands, the roosting-place of thousands of pelicans and birds that rose in clouds and circled above our heads.
Thus they came up under what was either a point of land or an islet covered with a thick growth of mangrove trees.
So, the rowers bending to the oars, the boat came slowly around from under the clump of mangrove bushes and out into the open water again.
About sunset, as was its custom, the breeze veered and swept back from the mountains, cool and steady, bringing a taste of the stagnant lagoons and mangrove swamps that guttered the lowlands.
It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a mangrove swamp.
Straight through the lavish growth of tropical branch and leaf and vine that confronted them had been cunningly trimmed a vista, that ended at the cleared environs of Coralio, on the banks of the mangrove swamp.
So they buried the dead man, without honours, back of the town near the little bridge that spans the mangrove swamp; and for a real a boy will show you his grave.
An old Indian, with a mahogany-coloured face, is trimming the grass on a grave by a mangrove swamp.
It was here of considerable width, bordered by mangrove bushes.
The breeze came stronger and stronger; and by the time the first streaks of early dawn appeared over the land, there was a strongish breeze blowing, hot, and smelling of the arid sand and damp mangrove marshes.
Thus the mangrove forms an almost impenetrable barrier along the banks of the rivers.
A species not uncommon at Key West, where it may be seen slowly crawling about the mangrove roots near the water's edge.
It attaches itself by the byssus in great bunches to mangrove roots, sticks, and all manner of rubbish in brackish water.
The only other mammal recorded was a large fox-bat, a skeleton of which was found hanging on a mangrove bush.
The mangrove bushes here seemed with difficulty to eke out an existence, their roots being no longer bathed in sea water; but on the other hand a few Ivi trees (Aleurites sp.
The low shores, with their cocoanut groves gracefully rising above the mangrove tangle, slipped by, and the distant blue Shimba Hills came nearer.
Mangrove thicket to the edge of the slimy ooze; trees behind--that was all we could see.
Hozier sympathized with her distress; knowing that acquaintance with an evil often helps to minimize its effect, he bent close to her ear and whispered the words: "Mangrove swamp.
The pungent smell of the mangrove swamp was wafted now to his nostrils.
At all events, his notion served to lift him over his difficulties and to get him out of his mangrove swamp--a way perhaps less impossible than the one recently pointed out by William James.
Let me now go back to the simile of the lost wretch struggling for life in the mangrove swamp.
We found it, at first, in small Lumps upon the Sea Beach, but afterwards found it sticking to the Mangrove Trees, and by that means found out from whence it came.
Rock Oysters and Mangrove Oysters, which are small, Pearl Oysters and Mud Oysters; these last are the best and Largest I ever saw.
Solander; the first thing I did was to look for fresh Water, and with that View rowed out towards the Cape, because in the bottom of the bay was low Mangrove land, and little probability of meeting with any there.
It was only in Thirsty Sound that we could find no fresh Water, and that no doubt was owing to the Country being there very much intersected with Salt Creeks and Mangrove land.
Note, in speaking of Mercury Bay, I had forgot to mention that the Mangrove Trees found there produce a resinous substance very much like Rosin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mangrove" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
