 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...at which it is found, it is generally deliciously cool and refreshing. Another kind, named mokuri, is seen in other parts of the country, where long-continued...soil. This plant is a herbaceous creeper, and deposits under ground a number of tubers, some as large as a man's head, at spots in a circle, a yard or more... | |
 | 1857 - 588 lehte
...at which it is found, it is generally deliciously cool and refreshing. Another kind, named Mokuri, is seen in other parts of the country, where long-continued...herbaceous creeper, and deposits underground a number of tuber?, some as large as a man's head, at spots in a circle a yard or more, horizontally, from the... | |
 | 1858 - 256 lehte
...at which it is found, it is generally deliriously cool and refreshing. Another kind, named Mokuri, is seen in other parts of the country, where long-continued...soil. This plant is a herbaceous creeper, and deposits under ground a number of tubers, some as large as a man's head, at spots in a circle a yard 01 more,... | |
 | David Livingstone - 1858 - 778 lehte
...at which it is found, it is generally deliciously cool and refreshing. Another kind, named Mokuri. is seen in other parts of the country, where long-continued heat parches the soil. This plant is an herbaceous creeper, and deposits under gound a number of tubers, some as large as a man's head,... | |
 | David Livingstone - 1868 - 810 lehte
...at which it is found, it is generally deliciously cool and refreshing. Another kind, named Mokuri, is seen in other parts of the country, where long-continued heat parches the soil. This plant is -an herbaceous crceper, and deposits under gound a number of tubers, some as large as a man's head,... | |
 | David Livingstone - 1872 - 806 lehte
...at which it is found, it is generally deliciously cool and refreshing. Another kind, named Hokuri, is seen in other parts of the country, where long-continued heat parches the soil. This plant is an herbaceous creeper, and deposits under gound a number of tubers, some as large as a man's head,... | |
 | Keith Johnston - 1878 - 712 lehte
...kind, named the " mokuri," is seen in parts of the desert where long-continued dry heat has parched the soil. This plant is a herbaceous creeper, and...deposits underground a number 'Of tubers, some as large COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. as a man's head, at spots in a circle a yard or more horizontally... | |
 | 1861 - 712 lehte
...at which it is found, it is generally deliciously cool and refreshing. Another kind, named mokuri, is seen in other parts of the country, where long-continued...soil. This plant is a herbaceous creeper, and deposits under ground a number of tubers, gome as large as a man's head, at spots in a circle a yard or more,... | |
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... often as large as the head of a young child ; when the rind is removed, we find it to be a mass of cellular tissue, filled with fluid, much like that in a young turnip. Owing to the depth beneath the soil at which it is found, it is generally deliciously... 