Cultivation of crops is limited to the coastal area, where the population is largely concentrated; rice and manioc are the major crops.
The roots of the yucca, or manioc plant, grow in bunches like potatoes.
Its use was to compress the grated pulp of the manioc roots, so as to separate the juice from it, and thus make "cassava.
The roots are preserved for use by being simply cleaned, sliced and dried; from such dried slices manioc or cassava meal, used for cassava cakes, &c.
Skins served as a bed, and the furniture consisted of a large earthen vase made to contain the maize or manioc flour; the cowrie baskets and knapsacks having also been deposited inside.
A good provision of maniocflour had been conveyed to them.
Only think,' said she, `of my beloved potatoes andmanioc roots!
My wife had exerted herself in our absence to provide a good store of potatoes, and also of manioc root.
If this proves to be, as I expect, the manioc root, we might lose every other eatable we possess, and yet not starve.
It was a lovely morning, and passing gaily through the plantations of potatoes, manioc and cassavas, we came to the nests of the sociable grosbeak, the sight of which charmed the children immensely.
The spot selected for the permanent camp was a sort of park-like space covered at its edges with masses of manioc and banana bushes.
At last the leader of the party called a halt and they sat down to eat some of the cassava and manioc cakes they had brought with them.
With the coming of darkness a few scores of camp-fires blazed, at which the negroes roasted dried meat and ate a dough of manioc roots, picking it out of the utensils with their fingers.
There is a spring of excellent water, a few manioc fields, and a multitude of bananas.
At the distance of about a third of a mile he observed a large maniocfield and at the border of the field between ten and twenty black forms apparently engaged at work in the field.
In the pack-saddles, which the donkey bore, they also found about three pots of durra, a few fistfuls of salt, and a bunch of dried manioc roots.
On the contrary, they continually live in dread of elephants, whole herds of which destroy at night their manioc fields as well as banana and doom-palm plantations.
Footnote 12: The manioc of which the "casaba" bread is made.
From time to time one of the women walks round the beasts, throwingmanioc meal or palm wine upon them, especially into their eyes.
Only think," said she, "of my beloved potatoes andmanioc roots!
The starch of the root of the manioc is prepared in the following manner, as described by Dr.
An acre of manioc is said to yield as much nutriment as six acres of wheat.
The manioc or cassava is cultivated in America, on both sides of the equator, to about latitude 30 degrees north and south.
Meyen states, "It is not possible sufficiently to praise the beautifulmanioc plant.
The farina of the manioc is almost the only kind of meal used in Brazil, at least in the north, near the equator.
These villages are living on the produce of the old manioc fields, and are buying food from the Bakette.
The Bakuba district was formerly one of the richest food-producing regions in the country, maize and millet being the staple crops, together with manioc and other plants.
No land in such a country is actually occupied by natives save the actual site of their villages, and the scanty fields of grain or manioc which surround them.
We crossed the potato and manioc plantations, and the wood of guavas, on which my boys feasted to their great satisfaction.
My wife showed me a large store of potatoes and manioc roots, which she and her children had dug up the evening before.
I then spread a cloth over the ground, and, giving each of the boys a grater, we began to grate the carefully-washed manioc roots, resting the end on the cloth.
There is also at every hut a high stage erected for drying manioc roots and meal, and elevated cages to hold domestic fowls.
The deserted gardens often continued to produce manioc for many years after their owners had sought new spots for their crops of maize and millet.
We saw manioc attain a height of six feet and upward, and this is a plant which requires the very best soil.
Virgin soil does not give such a heavy crop as an old garden, and, judging from the size of the maize and manioc in the latter, I can readily believe the statement.
We were now in want of food, for, to the great surprise of my companions, the people of Kangenke gave nothing except by way of sale, and charged the most exorbitant prices for the little meal and manioc they brought.
The manioc cultivated here is of the sweet variety; the bitter, to which we were accustomed in Londa, is not to be found very extensively in this fertile valley.
The old gardens continue to yieldmanioc for years after the owners have removed to other spots for the sake of millet and maize.
We rested beside a small stream, and our hunger being now very severe, from having lived on manioc alone since leaving Ionza Panza's, we slaughtered one of our four remaining oxen.
A crop of beans or ground-nuts is sown between them, and when these are reaped the land around the manioc is cleared of weeds.
Manenko gave us some manioc roots in the morning, and had determined to carry our baggage to her uncle's, Kabompo or Shinte.
To our first message, offering a visit of explanation to Manenko, we got an answer, with a basket of manioc roots, that we must remain where we were till she should visit us.
A little further up the river, is the deserted Catholic Mission of St. Marie which has evidently been at one time well arranged with a large manioc plantation and garden.
The root of the manioc yields the flour, which is made into kwanga and unless it is well boiled, is supposed to be very injurious.
Soon after the train stops at a station where the natives have assembled to sell fruit and kwanga, a kind of bread made from the flour of the manioc root and the chief article of native diet.
On these the manioc will be planted for two years and then new areas will be cleared in the same manner.
The manioc plant has a green stem, reddish branches and green leaves arranged in clusters of six which turn downwards forming the shape of a parasol, evidently a popular, as it is an appropriate, pattern for vegetable life in this hot country.
The banana, millet and manioc zones, and especially their swampy coastal plains, were of course the chief sources of slaves for the transatlantic trade.
In regard to this I may say I have often heard it ascribed to the manioc when in Kakongo, the idea being that when manioc was soaked in water surcharged with the poisonous extract, it had a bad effect.
A very little cassareep, which is a condiment (only obtainable at a few London shops) made from the juice of the bitter cassava, or manioc root.
The island was swept of houses, trees, cattle, and birds; the manioc and tobacco plants were destroyed, and only one cotton shrub survived.
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