rushpith

Updated: June 24, 2025

This was a bad beginning, and caused a few of the usual anathemas in which our countrymen give vent to their irritation. Two loads of flowers, neatly packed in long strips of rushpith, were sent for us "to consume at once," as more would be given on the morrow.

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