caruba

Updated: May 2, 2025

Everywhere a prodigious collection of all kinds of goods: silks, minerals, wood in stacks, lead in pigs, cloths, sugars, caruba wood logs, colza seed, liquorice sticks, sugar-canes. The East and the West cheek by jowl, even to pyramids of Dutch cheeses which the Genoese were dyeing red by contact with their hands.

Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin of Tarascon

The large sceptre-reed; the fig-tree, lingering in barrenness when other trees are full of fruit; the locust-beans of the Caruba: for one suggestion of Greek idylls there is yet another, of far deeper, dearer power. But who can resist the influence of Greek ideas at the Cap S. Martin?

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series