Title: A Naturalist in Mid-Africa, being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Elliot, George Francis Scott; 1896. xvi. 413 p.; 8 . 010096.h.7.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II ON SAVAGES, DOCTORS, AND PLANTS Savages knew Botany?First lady doctors and botanical excursions- True drugs and horrible ornaments?Hydrophobia cure?Cloves? Mustard?Ivy?Roses and Teeth?How to keep hair on?How to know if a patient will recover?Curious properties of a mushroom? The Scythian lamb?Quinine: history and use?Safflower?Romance of ipecacuanha?Wars of the spice trade?Cinnamon, logwood, and indigo?Romance of pepper?Babylonian and Egyptian botanists? Chinese discoveries?Theophrastus?Medieval times?The first illustrated book ? Numbers of plants known?Discoveries of painters and poets. IF we look back to the time when all men and women were mere savages, living like the Esquimaux or the Australians of to-day, then it is certain that every person was much interested in plants. Nothing was so interesting as daily food, because no one was ever certain of even one good meal in the day. So that in those early times there was a very sound, well-grounded knowledge of roots, bulbs, and fruits. They knew all that were good to eat, all that could possibly be eaten in time of famine and starvation, and also every poisonous and unwholesome plant. Some savage genius must have discovered that certain plants were "good medicinen; that certain tree-barks helped to check fever, and that others were worth trying when people had successfully devoured more than they FIRST LADY DOCTORS could comfortably digest. The life of a savage meant tremendous meals, followed by days of starvation; even now, when young children are fed on rice in India, a thread is tied round their waist, and, when this bursts, they are not allowed to eat any more. Very probably some of these early physicians were lady doctors usually of a certain age. Men were too busy with their hunting and wa...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II ON SAVAGES, DOCTORS, AND PLANTS Savages knew Botany?First lady doctors and botanical excursions- True drugs and horrible ornaments?Hydrophobia cure?Cloves? Mustard?Ivy?Roses and Teeth?How to keep hair on?How to know if a patient will recover?Curious properties of a mushroom? The Scythian lamb?Quinine: history and use?Safflower?Romance of ipecacuanha?Wars of the spice trade?Cinnamon, logwood, and indigo?Romance of pepper?Babylonian and Egyptian botanists? Chinese discoveries?Theophrastus?Medieval times?The first illustrated book ? Numbers of plants known?Discoveries of painters and poets. IF we look back to the time when all men and women were mere savages, living like the Esquimaux or the Australians of to-day, then it is certain that every person was much interested in plants. Nothing was so interesting as daily food, because no one was ever certain of even one good meal in the day. So that in those early times there was a very sound, well-grounded knowledge of roots, bulbs, and fruits. They knew all that were good to eat, all that could possibly be eaten in time of famine and starvation, and also every poisonous and unwholesome plant. Some savage genius must have discovered that certain plants were "good medicinen; that certain tree-barks helped to check fever, and that others were worth trying when people had successfully devoured more than they FIRST LADY DOCTORS could comfortably digest. The life of a savage meant tremendous meals, followed by days of starvation; even now, when young children are fed on rice in India, a thread is tied round their waist, and, when this bursts, they are not allowed to eat any more. Very probably some of these early physicians were lady doctors usually of a certain age. Men were too busy with their hunting and wa...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. COLONISATION BY OTHER METHODS Very often, plants are enabled to occupy new ground through some special method of growth, or by means of some specialised part (not fruit or seed) which has been developed for the purpose. Sometimes the whole plant is carried to a new place, to which it is either blown by the wind, or floated upon the water. Among plants so transported may be mentioned Manna (Lecanora desertoruui), and other lichens of the Syrian desert, which, in dry weather, are blown over considerable areas, and sometimes heaped up in great quantities. Of other plants, perhaps the best known is the so-called Rose of Jericho (Anastatica Hierochuntica). When dry, the whole plant curls into a sort of spherical ball; then it is said to be torn out and carried away by the wind, but if it should reach a moist place, or be placed in water, the withered-looking branches uncoil, and the plant takes root and produces flowers and fruit. There are quite a number of water plants which, throughout their lives, remain unattached, floating freely, and carried about in the water. The small Lemna, for instance, which has tiny green fronds flattened out in a leaf-like manner, floats on the water and obtains all necessary salts by means of longabsorbing roots. The Bladderwort (Utricularia), the Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae), Salvinia, Azolla, and the Florida Hyacinth are all similarly independent, and are never attached to the ground. They arc easily carried about by the current; and sometimes show an extraordinarily quick rate of multiplication. For example the Florida Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), a native of tropical South America, was introduced into the St. John's river about 1890. In 1897 it had increased to such an extent that large steamers were rendered helpl...

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