 These trees grow in great abundance all over this part of Bambarra. They are not planted by the natives, but are found growing naturally in the woods; and in clearing woodland for cultivation, every tree is cut down but the shea. The tree itself very...  Annual Register - Page 775edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
 | 1832 - 428 pages
...the Niger. " These trees," says Mr. Park, " grow in great abundance all over this part of Bambarra. They are not planted by the natives, but are found growing naturally in the wood; and in clearing wood-land for cultivation, every tree is cut down but the Shea. The tree itself... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...they prepare the vegetable butter. These trees grow in great abundance all over this part of Bambarra. They are not planted by the natives, but are found...cultivation, every tree is cut down but the Shea. pulp, under a thin green rind ; and the butter produced from it, besides the advantage of its keeping... | |
 | 1835 - 550 pages
...in the former part of this work. These trees grow in great abundance all over this part of Bambarra. They are not planted by the natives, but are found...first dried in the sun, the butter is prepared, by boiling the kernel in water, has somewhat the appearance of a Spanish olive. The kernel is enveloped... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...in the former part of this work. These trees grow in great abundance all over this part of Bambarra. They are not. planted by the natives, but are found...first dried in the sun, the butter is prepared, by boiling the kernel in water, has somewhat the appearance of a Spanish olive. The kernel is enveloped... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Mexico - 1840 - 294 pages
...mentioned in former parts of this work. These trees grow in great abundance all over this part of Bambarra. They are not planted by the natives, but are found...cultivation, every tree is cut down but the Shea. The THE COW TREK. 97 Park, belongs; but it is now generally regarded as a member of the Urticaceous order,... | |
 | Exhibition catalogs - 1851 - 758 pages
...mention is made of shea bii/ler, the product of the shea-tree. He described this tree a« resembling " the American oak, and the fruit — from the kernel...first dried in the sun, the butter is prepared, by boiling the kernel in water" — as having " sometimes the appearance of a Spanish olive." He remarks... | |
 | Great exhibition, 1851 - 1853 - 372 pages
...mention is made of shea-butter, the product of the shea-tree. He described this tree as resembling " the American oak, and the fruit — from the kernel...first dried in the sun, the butter is prepared, by boiling the kernel in water" — as having " sometimes the appearance of a Spanish olive." He remarks... | |
 | Robert Sears - Curiosities and wonders - 1856 - 566 pages
...abundance in the part of Bambara through which he was then travelling. "The tree itself," says he, " resembles the American oak ; and the fruit (from the kernel of which, being first dried in the sun, the butter is prepared by boiling the kernel in water) has somewhat the... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 584 pages
...in the former part of this work. These trees grow in great abundance all over this part of Bambarra. They are not planted by the natives, but are found...first dried in the sun, the butter is prepared by boiling the kernel in* water, has somewhat the appearance of a Spanish olive. The kernel is enveloped... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 582 pages
...in the former part of this work. These trees grow in great abundance all over this part of Bambarra. They are not planted by the natives, but are found...first dried in the sun, the butter is prepared by boiling the kernel in water, has somewhat the appearance of a Spanish olive. The kernel is enveloped... | |
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