...Animals of all kinds are rare here, and a very small piece of calico is of great value...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Next to that, English calico was in great demand, and so were beads; but money was of no value whatever...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...This, though frequently granted in the shape of pieces of calico to make new dresses, was occasionally refused, but the rebuff did not much affect the petitioner...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...With another tusk we procured calico, which here is the chief currency, to pay our way down to the coast...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...This probably arises from calico being the chief circulating medium; quantity being then of more importance than quality...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...But, with all these drawbacks, the Americans carry on a brisk and profitable trade in calico, biscuit, flour, butter, etc...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... When food is purchased here with either salt or coarse calico, four persons can be well fed with animal and vegetable food at the rate of one penny a day...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...They receive calico, salt, gunpowder, coarse earthenware, and beads, and give in return ivory and slaves...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The natives only collect gold from the neighbourhood whenever they wish to purchase calico...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
... Kaniké is a blue calico...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...I taught him to make a mosquito-curtain of thinprinted calico, for he had endured the persecution of these insectshelplessly, except by sleeping on a high stage, when they were unusuallybad...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...All know that my goods are unrighteouslydetained by Shereef and they show me kindness, which I return by somefine calico which I have...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...I lost all my remaining calico, a telescope, umbrella, and five spears,by one of the slaves throwing down the load and taking up his own bundleof country cloth...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...The outfithalted before our astonished camp, and as it did so twowomen, genuine spirits of calico and long hair, lifteda corner of the wagon cover and looked out...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...Standing in the bushwhere the red calico strip had been discovered,Peter Gross looked across the seven or eight rods tothe water-hole and shook his head...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...On a piece of canvas on the ground, rolls of printed calico with red flowers, were displayed to tempt the girls...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...For oil painting place a thin calico or canvas on thebacks, and colour with the tints you desire, mixed in oil andturps...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...Watson's 'Sylvan Folk'comes like a breath of sweet country air into the atmosphere of an emporiumof stuffed birds and calico flowers...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
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