Mauritia

Word MAURITIA
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I thought of what Jim had told me and remembered that out beyond the mauritia swamps there were still Waorani who had yet to be contacted—a small band splintered from the people at Yasuni, running scared in the forest. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)

In an excellent soil, around clumps of mauritia, there is every year from fifty feet square a produce of thirteen or fourteen tortas. ❋ Unknown (1851)

The murichi, or mauritia with scaly fruits, is the celebrated sago-tree of the Guaraon Indians. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Raleigh, who knew none of the productions of the Upper Orinoco, does not speak of the juvia; but it appears that he first brought to Europe the fruit of the mauritia palm, of which we have so often spoken. ❋ Unknown (1851)

The humid spots are recognized at a distance by groups of mauritia, which are the sago-trees of those countries. ❋ Unknown (1851)

The plantain, the sago-tree, and the mauritia of the Orinoco, are as much bread-trees as the rema of the South Sea. ❋ Unknown (1851)

There are little pools round the farm, which the animals find, guided by their instinct, by the view of some scattered tufts of mauritia, and by the sensation of humid coolness, caused by little currents of air amid an atmosphere which to us appears calm and tranquil. ❋ Unknown (1851)

This plain is adorned with clumps of the mauritia palm, the sago-tree of America. ❋ Unknown (1851)

* In the season of inundations these clumps of mauritia, with their leaves in the form of a fan, have the appearance of a forest rising from the bosom of the waters. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Tivitivas (Tibitibies), of the race of the Guaraon Indians, on the tops of the mauritia palm-trees; and appears to have first brought the fruit to ❋ Unknown (1851)

These notions of a great convulsion of nature; of two human beings saved on the summit of a mountain, and casting behind them the fruits of the mauritia palm-tree, to repeople the earth; of that national divinity, ❋ Unknown (1851)

We often made a similar observation under the shade of the mauritia palm-tree, the Cocos butyracea, the Seje and the Pihiguao of the Atabapo. ❋ Unknown (1851)

These phenomena are observed on barren tracts of fifty or sixty leagues in length, wherever the savannahs are not traversed by rivers; for on the borders of rivulets, and around little pools of stagnant water, the traveller finds at certain distances, even during the period of the great droughts, thickets of mauritia, a palm, the leaves of which spread out like a fan, and preserve a brilliant verdure. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Between these two tributary streams of the Orinoco, amid the morichales, or clumps of mauritia palm-trees, which surround Esmeralda, the Rio Sodomoni flows, celebrated for the excellence of the pine-apples that grow upon its banks. ❋ Unknown (1851)

The fine pirijao palm, with its fruit like peaches, and a new species of bache, or mauritia, its trunk bristled with thorns, rise amid smaller trees, the vegetation of which appears to be retarded by the continuance of the inundations. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Many solitary cultivated spots already exist in the midst of the pastures where running water and tufts of the mauritia palm have been found. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Orinoco; but their lands being completely inundated by the overflowing of the rivers for some months in each year, they construct their dwellings above the water, among the mauritia palms, whose crowns of fan-like leaves wave above their heads and shield them from the rays of the burning sun. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

They depend greatly on the pith of the mauritia, or ita, as it serves them for bread; while of other parts of the tree they construct their dwellings. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Among the most beautiful is the mauritia, or miriti, with pendent clusters of reddish fruit; its enormous, spreading, fan-like leaves cut into ribbons. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

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