palm-coir

Updated: May 16, 2025

Perhaps the greater "adaptability" of the Teuton explains the cause. The evening began with a game of ball in the large open space amongst the houses forming the village square. The implement was a roll of palm-coir tightly bound with the central fibre of the plantain-leaf.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2