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Updated: July 29, 2025
The trees consisted chiefly of mimosas of several species; upon the leaves, roots, and tender shoots of which the great ruminant loves to browse. There were some "cameel-doorn" trees, with their shady umbrella-like tops. But above all rose the massive heads of the nwanas, giving a peculiar character to the landscape.
The stems should be secured to stout stakes, and, if large, umbrella-like specimens are wanted, a frame should be made in the form of an umbrella, and the stem and branches fastened to it.
Other edibles of many kinds are brought and arranged about the baisee, and a beautiful bouquet adorns the top of each of the umbrella-like canopies. Then a procession was formed, of princes, noblemen, and others, who marched around the standards nine times.
And the effect produced by the continuity of spreading umbrella-like tops is peculiar. Then, soon after the forest has become visible, the road brings the wayfarer within sight of a vast lonely structure heaving its huge long back against the low horizon, like some monster antidiluvian saurian, the fit denizen of this marsh world. It is the venerable Basilica of St. Apollinare in Classe.
There he sat with a big umbrella-like sunshade fixed up over him on a bamboo pole, in front of him a kind of platform spread across the front of his moored boat, and upon it sat perched eight or nine of my old friends the cormorants, one of which dived into the river from time to time, and soon after emerged and made its way back to the boat with a fish in its beak. "See that, Mr Brooke?"
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