..."Start him on square root," suggested Dolf kindly...
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
...This root is bitter and waxy, though it is cultivated...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The height of this animal was 4 feet 10 inches, and from the point of the nose to the root of the tail 10 feet 6...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...One of them took out his snuff-box, and poured out all its contents at the root of a tree as an offering to the Barimo for success...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...This deadly poison is obtained, Ibelieve, by boiling down a particular root, the arrow-heads beingdipped in the black, pitchy-looking essence which remains...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...I whipped round and let drive a snap-shot that tipped him head over heels, breaking his back within two inches of the root of the tail, and there he lay helpless but glaring...
Various 「Stories by English Authors: Africa」
...He should have been better pleased with a bill, which would strike at once at the root of this detestable commerce...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...A root yielding a grateful bitterwas used in lieu of hops, the name of which I have forgotten; butthe corn which yields the wort is the holcus spicatus ofbotanists...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 1 [of 2]」
...She lowered her head when within about six yards, and I fired low for the centre of the forehead, exactly in the swelling above the root of the trunk...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...Singing and jumping all the way, she went back, and took a sharp stone, and cut at the root of a kippersol, and got out a large piece, as long as her arm, and sat to chew it...
Olive Schreiner 「Dream Life and Real Life」
...197) calls "Coongo, a bitter root, that requires four days' boiling to deprive it of its pernicious quality;" this is probably the black or poisonous manioc...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
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