...That morning Tarzan had broughtthem fruit, nuts, and plantain, and now he was bringing them theflesh of his kill, while the best that they might do was to fetchwater from the river... 
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
... Some broad-leafed plantain plants were also seen in the neighbourhood of the villages, which as we advanced became very numerous...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The cosy nooks at the head of the many small bays constitute most admirable pictures, filled in as they are with the ever-beautiful feathery palms and broad green plantain fronds...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The air is full of the long, soft, rich notesof the plantain warblers, and the uproar consequent upon the Movétaking on fuel wood, which comes alongside in canoe loads from the Fallaba...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...M’bo sadly informs me that “theyno got chop,” having been provided only with plantain, and nomeat or fish to eat with it...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...lying on the ground among the plantain stems, havingby a reckless movement fallen out of the house...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...A woman cameout of the crowd to me, and held out a mass of slimy gray abominationon a bit of plantain leaf - smashed snail...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...A gourd bottle of plantain wine was offered and immediately emptied; it resembled extremely poor cider...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...They had proceeded onwards some days, when Kari, one of Speke’s men, had been induced to accompany some of the Waganda escort to a certain village of potters, to obtain pots for making plantain wine...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...This plantain grove was one of the pleasantest sights we had witnessed since we had landed on the shores of Africa...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...Bygreen food we mean such things as lawn clippings,green clover, spinach, green corn stalks, lettuce,celery tops, plantain, dandelion, grasses, etc...
A. C. Smith 「The Raising and Care of Guinea Pigs」
...Canaries are very fond of lettuce, chickweed, and plantain...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...In those days of my infancy I used to fancy Ishould like to try to take as large a bite of a plantain as she could...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
...The mother lies down on her back in the thick grassnear the house and places a flower of the plantain between herlegs; then her husband comes and knocks the flower away with hisgenital member...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Thismorning several of the Chiefs from the westward made us a Visit: theybrought with them Emblems of Peace, which are Young Plantain Trees...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...After he had thus disposed of all his plantain trees, he took severalpieces of Cloth and spread them on the ground...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...Here wereCocoa nutt Trees, Bread Fruit Trees, and Plantain Trees, but we saw nofruit but on the former, and these were small and Green; the other Trees,Shrubs, Plants, etc...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
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