bandbox-like

Updated: May 23, 2025

They have not, however, that bandbox-like neatness which surprises the African traveller on the Camerones River. Livingstone so pathetically complains. The settlements are sometimes provided with little plots of vegetables; usually, however, the plantations are distant, to preserve them from the depredations of bipeds and quadrupeds.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1