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A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

Barbosa, Duarte, 1480?-1521 [Dubious author]; Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521 [Dubious author]; Stanley, Henry Edward John Stanley, Baron, 1827-1903 [Translator]· 2 chapters· 10,245 words

[23] Yname, in Portuguese, Inhame. Root in the form of a gourd, composed of two bulbs, which grow one above the other, the larger one below the smaller one. It is cut into slices and eaten instead of bread. It throws out very large leaves, without fruit. The ancients erroneous...

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2. Canto ix, stanzas 5 and 6.

[49] The above anecdote of the fortitude and perseverance of Mir Hussein after his defeat, is new; and seems conclusive as to this MS. having remained unpublished, and almost un...

1. Canto x, stanzas 26, 27--

[23] Yname, in Portuguese, Inhame. Root in the form of a gourd, composed of two bulbs, which grow one above the other, the larger one below the smaller one. It is cut into slice...