The trunk is often converted into canoes.

The motsouri, which bears a pink plum containing a pleasant acid juice, resembles an orange-tree in its dark evergreen foliage, and a cypress in its form.

It was now winter-time, and we saw nothing of the flora.

The plants and bushes were dry; but wild indigo abounded, as indeed it does over large tracts of Africa.

It is called mohetolo, or the "changer", by the boys, who dye their ornaments of straw with the juice.