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Title: An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Agriculture — Dictionaries
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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t is eaten, and sometimes the leaves ; and a plant called theve, of which the rootalso is eaten: but the fruits of the nono, the fern, and the theve, are eaten only by theinferior people, and in times of scarcity. All these, which serve the inhabitants for food,the earth produces spontaneously, or with little culture. They had no European fruit,garden stuff, pulse, or legumes, nor grain of any kind, till some seeds of melons and othervegetables were given them by Captain Cook. 1064. Of tame animals, the Otaheitans have only hogs, dogs, and poultry; neither isthere a wild animal on the island, except ducks, pigeons, parroquets, with a few otherbirds, and rats, there being no other quadruped, nor any serpent. But the sea suppliesthem with great variety of most excellent fish, to eat which is their chief luxury, and tocatch it their principal labour. 1065. The remaining Polynesian Islands of the southern hemisphere are, for the mostpert, inhabited by savages, and are without agriculture.

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Book I. AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA. 171 Sect. IV. Of the present Slate of Agriculture in Africa. 1066. The continent of Africa, in point of agricultural as of political and ethical es-timation, is the meanest of the great divisions of the earth; though in one corner of it(Egypt) agriculture is supposed to have originated. The climate is every where hot,and intensely so in the northern parts. The central parts, as far as known, consist ofridges of mountains and immense deserts of red sand. There are very few rivers, inlandlakes, or seas, and indeed fully one half of this continent may be considered as eitherdesert or unknown. Some of the African islands are fertile and important, especiallyMadagascar, Bourbon, Mauritius, &c. We shall take the countries of Africa in theorder of Abyssinia, Egypt, Mohammedan states of the north, western coast, Cape ofGood Hope, eastern coast, Madagascar and other isles. Subsect. 1. Of the present State of Agriculture in Abyssinia. 1067. The climate of Abys

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