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PXVIII Introduction. '... the chief has a right to drink free from the village brews of pombé (a kind of beer made by fer mentation)'
pombé: bebida realiza por fermentación de cereales como el sorgho (Sorghum bicolor)

PXX Introduction. 'As with the tribal marks so with their weapons; those most commonly in use are the spear, assagé, shield, bow and arrow.'
assagé o assagai, azagaya, fabricado con la madera del árbol Curtisia dentata (según nota de la edición española)

P12 '... at low water exposes sand islets covered with mangrove shrub.'
mangrove (manglar): principal especie en Tanzania Avicenia marina (según nota de la edición española)

P15 'The first step now taken was to pitch camp under large shady mango-trees, ...'
mango-tree Mangifera indica

P19 'In a little while we cleared from the rich gardens, mango clumps, and cocoa-nut trees, which characterise the fertile coast-line.'
Cocos nucifera

P26 '... observing, as we passed along, the ochreish colour of the earth, and numerous pits which the copal-diggers had made searching for their much-valued gum.'
copal de África Hymenaea verrucosa

P29 'The gum-copal diggings here cease. The Düm palm is left behind; the large rich green-leaved trees of the low plateau give place to the mimosa;...'
palmera Dum Hyphaene thebaica

P34 'The hill tops and sides, where not cultivated, are well covered with bush and small trees, amongst which the bamboo is conspicuous; whilst the bottoms, having a soil deeper and richer, produce fine large fig-trees of exceeding beauty, the huge calabash, and a variety of other trees.'

P39 'Now leaving the open parks of pretty acacias, we followed up the Mgazi branch of the Mgéta. traversed large tree-jungles, where the tall palm is conspicuous, and drew up under the lumpy Mkambakü, to find a residence for the day.'

P44 '... again, we rose the first spurs of the well-wooded Usagara hills, amongst which the familiar bamboo was plentiful, and at night we bivouacked in the jungle.'

P49 'It is all clad in the upper regions with the slender pole-trees which characterise these hills, inter mingled with bamboo; but the bottoms are characterised by a fine growth of fig-trees of great variety along with high grasses; whilst near the villages were found good gardens of plantains, and numerous Palmyra trees.'
Borassus aethiopum (Una nota de edición espoñola indica Borassus flabelifer, pero esta es una palmera del SE de Asia)

P51 'Contorted green thorn-trees, “elephant-foot” stumps, and aloes, seem to thrive best here, by their very nature indicating what the country is, a poor stony land.'
pie de elefante Dioscorea elephantipes

P57 '... cattle were abundant, but grain so scarce that the villagers were living on to calabash seeds.'

P56 'Carrying water with us, we next marched half-way to the first settlement of Ugogo, and bivouacked again, to eat the last of our store of Mbumi grain.'
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P57 'Caravans, in consequence, never enter their villages, but camp outside, generally under the big “gouty-limbed” trees—encircling their entire camp some times with a ring-fence of thorns to prevent any sudden attack.'
... 'the Wagogo were mixing their small stores of grain with the monkey-bread seeds of the gouty-limbed tree.'
baobas Adansonia digitata

P100 'All the country is richly cultivated, though Indian corn at that time was the only grain ripe.'
maíz Zea mays

P101 '...entered the rich flat district of Mininga, where the gingerbread-palm grows abundantly.'
gingerbread palm: palmera Doum Hyphaene thebaica

P115 'Músa's men came to get palm-toddy for him, ...'
palm-toddy (ponche de palmera), obtenido de varias especies (toddy-palms): puede ser Borassus aethiopum (la edición castella anota que se trata de Caryota urens, pero esta especie de origen asiático)

P125 'They smear themselves with rancid butter instead of macassar, ...'

P154 'He, like the rest of the porters in the caravan, wore a shirt of fig-tree bark called mbugu.'
barkcloth Ficus natalensis

P170 '... whilst the ground over which we were travelling, instead of being confined like a valley, rose in long high swells of sandstone formation, covered with small forest-trees, among which flowers like primroses, only very much larger, and mostly of a pink colour, were frequently met with.'

P177 'Cattle were numerous, kept by the Wahúma, who would not sell their milk to us because we ate fowls and a bean called maharagüé.'
maharague, probablemente Lablab purpureus

P188 '6th–Karambúlé now told us to string our beads on the fibre of the Mwalé tree, which was sold here by the Wastii,'

P194 'Just beyond it the valley was clothed with fine trees and luxuriant vegetation of all de scriptions, amongst which was conspicuous the pretty pandana palm, and rich gardens of plantains ; whilst thistles of extraordinary size and wild indigo were the more common weeds.'
pandana palm, probable Pandanus utilis
wild indigo, probable Indigofera tinctoria
plantains, bananero o platanero Musa paradisiaca

P197 'brought me presents, as soon as we arrived, of sheep, fowls, and sweet potatoes, ...'
sweet potatoes, batatas Ipomoea batatas

P218 'The whole scenery was most beautiful. Green and fresh, the slopes of the hills were covered with grass, with small clumps of soft cloudy-looking acacias growing at a few feet only above the water, and above them, facing over the hills, fine detached trees, and here and there the gigantic medicinal aloe.
¿?'

P200 '... and getting drunk on their pombé, called, in their language, marwa - a delicious kind of wine made from the banana.'
banana Musa paradisiaca, en la obra se utilizan sobre todo el nombre de 'plantain' y pocas veces 'banana'.

P266 '... rich marshy plains studded with mounds, on each of which grow the umbrella cactus, or some other ever green tree; ...'
seguramente Euphorbia candelabrum

P269 '... the males wearing for turbans, strings of abrus-seeds wound round their heads, ...'
Abrus precatorius

P275 'sundry pots of pombé, enor mous sticks of sugar-cane, and a large bundle of country coffee. This grows in great profusion all over this land in large bushy trees, the berries sticking on the branches like clusters of holly-berries.'
sugar-cane, caña de azúcar Saccharum officinarum
más frecuente este especie de cafeto: Coffea canephora

P278 'and in the dells were such magnificent trees, they quite took me by sur prise. Clean-trunked, they towered up just as so many great pillars, and then spread out their high branches like a canopy over us. I thought of the blue gums of Australia, and believed these would beat them.'

P287 'The whole brow and sides of the hill on which we stood were covered with gigantic grass huts, thatched as neatly as so many heads dressed by a London barber, and fenced all round with the tall yellow reeds of the common Uganda tiger-grass; ...'

P290 'The king, a good-looking, well-figured, tall young man of twenty-five, was sitting on a red blanket spread upon a square platform of royal grass, encased in tiger-grass reeds, scrupulously well dressed in a new mbūgū.'
la edición es castella traduce 'tiger-grass reeds' por miraguano e indica la palmera Nannorrhops ritchicana, de origen asiático.

P302 'A basket of fruit, like Indian loquots, was then ordered in, and we ate them together, ...'
la edición en castellano traduce 'Indian loquots' por Rhodomyrtus macrocarpa, pero esta es una especie australiana. Se trata de Eriobotrya japonica, la fruta con la que se compara. Podría tratarse de Diospyros mespiliformis

P304 'The outer enclosures and courts were fenced with tiger-grass; ...'
La edición española traduce de nuevo 'tiger-grass' por miraguano, pero deben ser tallo más consistentes para una cerca, es posible que se trata de bambú.

P310 'Then sending her servant for a bag full of drinking-gourds, she made me select six of the best, and begged for my watch.'
Lagenaria siceraria

P368 'On the way a mistletoe was pointed out as a rain-producing tree, probably because, on a former occa sion, I had advised the king to grow groves of coffee-trees about his palace to improve its appearance, and supply the court with wholesome food—at'
mistetoe, muérdago de África tropical Viscum tuberculatum

P374 'Here he ordered fruit to be brought—the Matungūrū, a crimson pod filled with acid seeds, which has only been observed growing by the rivers or waters of Uganda—and Kasori, a sort of liquorice-root.'
matungulu, puede tratarse de Aframomum alboviolaceum
kasori ¿?

P386 'Rejecting his munificent offers, I gave him a cooling dose of calomel and jalap, which he drank like pombé, and pronounced beautiful—'
jalap, jalapa Ipomoea purga

P472 'The Sakibobo, alive to his danger, replied at once, and without the slightest hesita tion, Eighty cows, eighty goats, eighty slaves, eighty mbūgū, eighty butter, eighty coffee, eighty tobacco, eighty jowari, and eighty of all the produce of Uganda.'
jowari Sorghum bicolor

P481 '... traversing grass and jungle, like de dâk of India'
dâk Butea monosperma

P486 'with scanty villages, low huts, and dirty-looking people clad in skins; the plantain, sweet potato, sesamum, and ülézi (millet) forming the chief edibles, besides goats and fowls;'
sesamum, sésamo Sesamum indicum
ulezi Eleusine coracana

P538 '14th.-Kamrasi sent me four parcels of coffee, very neatly enclosed in rush pith.'
cesta de juncos

P560 '... this was the Nile again, navigable in this way from Urondogani. Both sides were fringed with the huge papyrus rush.'
papyrus, papiro Cyperus papyrus

P565 '...he must have a sufficient number of men to form his escort, and these were now grinding corn for the journey.'
corn, máiz Zea mays (en la edición en castellano indica 'trigo')

P567 'The sand-paper tree, whose leaves resemble a cat's tongue in roughness, and which is used in Uganda for polishing their clubs and spear-handles, was conspicuous; ...'
Ficus exasperata (en la edición en castellano se indica Dillenia scabrella, pero esta es una especie del SE de Asia.

Especies más significativas de la obra

Referencias

Planeta de Libros
https://www.planetadelibros.com

Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. John Hanning Speke
https://books.google.es