 | National Sunday school union - 1869 - 366 páginas
...outside, * their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation." Mr. Wallace goes on to say that the natives of Borneo make the floors of their... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 páginas
...smell, their great abundance, and the facility with which they are propagated—all make them fitted for a hundred different purposes, to serve which other materials would require much labour and preparation. They are at once the most wonderful and the most beautiful production of the... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 320 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions of the... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 362 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions of the... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 418 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions of the... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful as well as beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful as well as beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 514 páginas
...pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and inuiviu*.', are all qualities which render them useful for a hundred...preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful as well as beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized... | |
 | W G. Baker - 1884 - 334 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation. The bamboo is one of the most wotiderful and most beautiful productions of... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1884 - 248 páginas
...outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which...serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation. The bamboo is one of of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts... | |
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... regularity with which they can be split, their many different sizes, the varying length of their joints, the ease with which they can be cut and with which holes can be made through them, their hardness outside, their freedom from any pronounced taste... 
