copal-diggers

Updated: May 1, 2025

Here the river, again making a bend, is lost to sight, and we marched through large woods and cultivated fields to Muhugue, observing, as we passed long, the ochreish colour of the earth, and numerous pits which the copal-diggers had made searching for their much-valued gum.

John Hanning Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile