Besides the fore-mentioned Commodities, they brought aboard great quantities of Yams and Potatoes; which we purchased for Nails, Spikes, or Bullets.
We salted 70 or 80 good fat Hogs, and bought Yams and Potatoes good store to eat at Sea.
Yams and sweet potatoes seem to have fled from the soil, for they come not.
Griffiths lay at Savo last night, taking on pigs andyams and filling his water-tanks.
Every tree is hacked down, and the wild pigs are rooting out the yams and sweet potatoes.
During a time of famine the young spider crawls into a rat-hole in search of a nut which has rolled into it, and there meets with three unkempt and unwashed spirits, who desire him to peel some yams and cook the peelings.
They give him a large basket of yams to carry home, and teach him a spell which is not to be imparted to any one else.
The oldyams are done and the new ones are not in yet.
We must do the same also with regard to our yams and all our other provisions, or, after all the pains we have taken, we might run short, which would not be pleasant.
Half a dozen yams had been discovered, and these, beaten up with some oil, were all they had to sustain life.
Pat had just concocted their potful of turtle soup, and had some yams roasting in the embers.
The worst part of the business was when we were nearly starving and had to live on rotten yams and train oil.
If we could build a steamer it would be very well; but we may be becalmed for days together, and I should not like to go through what we had to endure in the boat--mashed yams and oil.
And so named from their then digging wild yamsbefore the cultivated ones were ripe, and also from early yam digging.
One day Manono cooked an oven of yams for his father and brother chiefs, but served it up without a fish.
Persons going to search for bush yams in time of scarcity gave a yam to the stones as a thank-offering, supposing that these gods caused the yams to grow, and could lead them to the best places for finding such edible roots.
They carry yams for the larcenous and frustrated people of Snaddra.
The distinction may be best seen by comparing the crops of yams or plantains.
In the entertainment of the Somosomo natives at Natewa, Jackson saw standing by the pile of yams a young girl who was to be killed and eaten when the ceremony of distribution was over.
Masi was beaten, clubs and spears were carved, paint was prepared for the bodies of the worshippers, and a vast quantity of yams was planted.
The soil is then made into little hillocks in which theyams are planted.
When they are beaten back, he is frowning upon them: when the yams ripen to abundant harvest he is rewarding their piety.
Their agricultural system has imbued them with a prejudice against cattle, which break down their weak fences, and trample and destroy the yams and plantains.
The Sevu (First-fruits) of the yam harvest were always piled in the Nanga before the yams were dug, and allowed to rot there.
The yams were weeded with a hoe made of a plate of tortoise-shell or the valve of a large oyster.
Over a large portion of these flats the land is broken up into little plots, surrounded by ditches, in which grow via and taro, while the higher ground included by them is covered with fruit-trees, and yams or plantains.
The silent guide bore on his shoulders a burden of yams rolled in a hammock, but it in no way interfered with the freedom of his movements.
Upon this a grinning negro brought in a basketful of yams that had evidently been roasted among the ashes of an open fire, and set it on a rude table.
Thereupon they lay down on the ground yams mixed with oil and not mixed with oil.
Amongst the Hos, another Ewe tribe of Togoland, when a man is about to dig up his yam crop, he first of all digs up two yams which he had planted for the goddess Mawu Sodza.
Each party brings in its yams in a basket, which is carried in the arms with great care, by the principal vassal of the chief to whom the plantation may belong.
M52) A second festival of yams used to be celebrated at Coomassie in December, when the king or a fetish priest consecrated the new yams before they could be eaten by common folk.
M105 The first-fruits of the yams deposited on the grave of the last Tooitonga (divine chief).
Before the Adeli of the Slave Coast may eat of the new yams, the owner of each farm must bring the first yams of his field to the fetish priest, who offers them to the fetish, after which he declares that the harvest may take place.
As soon as the high priest quits the town next morning to go to the sacrificial place of his god, the women set out to fetch the yams which they had deposited.
From another account it appears that the King of Ashantee must eat the new yams before any of his subjects was at liberty to do so.
M50 Ceremonies at eating the new yams among the Ewe negroes of Togoland.
They were supposed to preside especially over the growth of the yams and fruit-trees.
First of all the uncooked yams are cut in two through the middle, and then this prayer is offered: 'Agbasia, thou art he who has given the yams; therefore here is thine own!
In doing so they say to Agbasia, 'He who eats not the white yams, to him belong the yams mixed with oil; and he who eats not the yams mixed with oil, to him belong the white yams.
These yams and poles were deposited on each side of the area, so as to form two large heaps, decorated with different sorts of small fish, and piled up to the greatest advantage.
The yams of the Friendly Islands are excellent, and, when grown to perfection, keep very well at sea.
The yams were now in the greatest perfection, and we procured a good quantity in exchanges for pieces of iron.
The bearers of the yamsbeing all come in, each pole was taken up between two men, who carried it over their shoulders.
We could not be allowed to follow him, but were forthwith conducted to the place allotted to us, which was behind a fence, adjoining to the area of the fiatooka, where the yams had been deposited in the forenoon.
When the yams had reached the top of the first posts, they fastened others to them, and so continued till each pile was the height of thirty feet, or upward.
They were Mareewagee's present to Captain Clerke and me; and it was hard to say, whether the wood for fuel, or the yams for food, were of most value to us.
Besides Taoofa's present, we had got a good quantity of yams at Eooa, in exchange chiefly for small nails.
The first thing done, was to prepare a bowl of kava, and to order some yams to be baked for us.
After they had completed these two piles, they made several other heaps of yams and bread-fruit on each side of the area; to which were added a turtle, and a large quantity of excellent fish.
The plantations consist chiefly of yams and plantains.
Omai was desired by me to ask the chief, to what place the yams were to be thus carried with so much solemnity?
When the erections were completed, piles of bread-fruit and yams were heaped on either side, and a turtle and some excellent fish were added, and then the whole was presented to Cook.
The proceedings consisted of marching of men laden with yams tied on to sticks, of considerable speech-making, and various performances of which the signification could not be understood, and then the prince made his appearance.
The "pirate" had given up spinning yams on account of the old man's unfailing interruption.
Highly colored, picturesque, untrue and absurd as a stained glass window, nevertheless these yams took on a semblance of reality from the character of the narrator himself.
It was, however, agreed, that Ready and William should go round the next morning, bring home the tents, and as many yams as the boat could carry.
They turn into what they call sweet-potatoes, after one or two crops: yams are better things, in my opinion.
Yes, and they'll be wilder every day; but we must fence these yams from them, or we shall get none ourselves.
William and I must repair the boat, so that we may take a trip round to examine how the stock and yams get on.
Huaheine and Eimeo, again, are remarkable for producing greater quantities of yams than the other islands.
Six or seven canoes had come off to us, before we anchored, bringing some small pigs and potatoes, and a good many yams and mats.
Having some cocoa-nuts and yamson board, in a state of vegetation, I ordered them to be planted on the little island where we had observed the eclipse, and some melon-seeds were sown in another place.
In times of scarcity, after their bread-fruit and yamsare consumed, they have recourse to various roots, which grow without cultivation upon the mountains.
In the evening, they made a signal for the boats, which were sent accordingly; and, not long after, they returned with a few yams and some salt.
Just beneath us was a deep canyon, at the bottom of which, so Nalik said, was a tiny rivulet which ran through banks covered with wild yams and ti plants.
They come here to root them up at this time of the year, before the wild yams are well grown, and the ti both fattens and sweetens.
All outdoor work is done by the men, who build the huts and canoes, plant yams and Kawa, fish, transport the food from the plantation to the house, and even cook it.
She states she has been sickly so long, that she has no ground in cultivation, and cannot help herself, and has only what yams her friends give her.
Yams were reduced from the dimensions of a man's head, to the size of a radish.
The same soil which ordinarily produced ten cart-loads of yams to the acre--the present season barely averaged one load to ten acres!
The bush, cut at the end, is fired before the beginning, of the rains, leaving the land ready for yams and sweet potatoes almost without using the hoe.
The fresh hide of a buck lay in the center of the ring of fires amid heaps of yams and unthreshed rice.
At night we had abundance of firewood, and a few of the long narrow yams were also found at this encampment, the first vegetable food we had yet procured.
Of the rest the better yams are hung up higher on the posts, and the poorer ones lower down.
To these selectedyams they tie croton leaves as distinguishing marks.
Yams and similar vegetables are planted by men in August and September, near to the young tree stems up which they are to trail, and at distances apart of 2 or 3 yards.
They are dug up by women from day to day as wanted, as they, like the sweet potato, cannot be kept, as the yams are, after being taken up.
I may here say in advance that upon these post clusters will be hung successively, yams and taro in the upper parts, human skulls and bones lower down, and croton leaves by way of decoration at the bottom.
The yams then grow, and twine over the tree stems, and spread.
In these receptacles are put yams and taro, upon their upright poles are hung bananas and upon their cross-pieces of wood are hung lengths of sugar-cane; all this being done by the families of the children.
Yams are ready for supplying food eight or ten months after planting.
They then further decorate the posts with human skulls and bones, which are hung round in circles below the yams and taro, but not reaching to the ground.
In hanging the yam and the taro the people all work simultaneously--that is, they are all hanging yams at the same time and all hanging taro at the same time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
