Identifier: travelstodiscov05bruc (find matches)
Title: Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes
Year: 1790 (1790s)
Authors: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Natural history Explorers
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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but in much lefsquantity ; this is of the tafte of fugar. From the root of the branch arifes a number of flalks,fometimes two, but never, as far as 1 have feen, more thanthree. The flower and feed are defended by a wonderfulperfection and quantity of fmall parts. The head when inits maturity is of a purpliffi brown. The plate reprefentsit in its natural fize, with its condiment parts diflected andfeparated with very great attention. As they are/many,each have a number affixed to them. Male-flower described. The ift is the flower in its perfect ftate feparated fromits ftalk. The 2d is the upper cafe. The 3d is the cafe,or meath, oppofite to the foregoing. The 4th are innercafes which inclofe the three ftamina, with the beard andthe arifta. The 5th is irs fhle. The 6th its ftamina, withthe two cafes that inclofe them. The 7th is the flieath, withits ear and its beard. Female-flower described. The 8th is the rudiment of the fruit, with two ftigmata.The yth, the perfect flower. kantuffa;
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6 Zondon Su&tykH DecM/ftf- &J.&-&•/■»> &&■ APPENDIX 49 KANTUFFA, THIS thorn, like many men we meet daijy in fociety, hasgot itfelf into a degree of reputation and refpectfrom the noxious qualities and power of doing ill which itpoileiles, and the conftant exertion of thefe powers. TheAbyffinians, who wear coarfe cotton cloths, the coarfeft ofwhich are as thick as our blankets, the fineft equal to ourmuflin, are in the fame degree annoyed with it The foldierfcreens himfelf by a goats, leopard, or lions fkin, thrownover his fhoulder, of which it has no hold. As his headis bare, he always cuts his hair fhort before he goes to bat-tle, left his enemy fhould take advantage of it; but thewomen, wearing their hair long, and the-great men, whe-ther in the army or travelling in peace,.being always cloath-ed, it never fails to incommode them, whatever ipecies ofraiment they wear. If their cloak is fine muflin, the leadmotion again!! it puts it all in rags; but

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