 | National Sunday school union - 1869 - 366 pages
...recently published volumes on the Malay Archipelago ; from which we now give a few extracts : — " The bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful...of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. Their strength, lightness, smoothness, straightness, roundness, and hollowness, the facility with which... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 320 pages
...and increase, are all qualities which render them useful for a hundred different purposes, to serve which other materials would require much more labour...of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. s. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often 300 feet long and 50 feet wide. The floor... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 362 pages
...and increase, are all qualities which render them useful for a hundred different purposes, to serve which other materials would require much more labour...tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilised man. 3. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often two or three hundred feet... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - Children - 1884 - 496 pages
...would inquire much more labor and prepaid* ion. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful as well OH beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's...two or three hundred feet long and forty or fifty feet wide. The floor is always formed of strips, about three inches wide, split from large bamboos,... | |
 | W G. Baker - 1884 - 334 pages
...and increase, are all qualities which render them useful for a hundred different purposes, to serve which other materials would require much more labour...of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. 3. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often 300 feet long and 50 feet wide. The floor... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...materials would require much more labor and preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful as well as beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. The Dyak N houses are all raised on posts, and are often two or three hundred feet long and forty or fifty feet... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - Children - 1884 - 514 pages
...materials would require much more labor and preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful as well as beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. The Dyak N houses are all raised on posts, and are often two or three hundred feet long and forty or fifty feet... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - Readers - 1884 - 524 pages
...materials would require much more labor and preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful as well as beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. The Dyak N houses are all raised on posts, and are often two or three hundred feet long and forty or fifty feet... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1884 - 248 pages
...and increase, are all qualities which render them useful for a hundred different purposes, to serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation. The bamboo is one of of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilised man. A Bamboo House in Borneo.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 928 pages
...purposes to which the bamboo is applicable are almost endless, and well justify the opinion that " it is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions...of Nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man" (A. R, Wallace, The Malay Archipelago). BAMBORO U (.JH, a village in Northumberland, on the sea-coast,... | |
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... pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which render them useful for a hundred different purposes, to serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation.... 
