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Bamboos

Bamboos

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 Dinesh
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During my many journeys in Borneo, and especially during my various residences among the Dayaks, I first came to appreciate the admirable qualities of the Bamboo. In those parts of South America which I had previously visited, these gigantic grasses were comparatively scarce, and where found but little used, their place being taken as to one class of uses by the great variety of Palms, and as to another by calabashes and gourds. Almost all tropical countries produce Bamboo, and wherever they are found in abundance the natives apply them to variety of uses. Their strength, lightness, smoothness, straightness, roundness, and hollowness, to facility into regularity with which they can be split, their many different sizes, the varying length of their joints, at 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 or smell, than great abundance and the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which render them useful for a hundred different purposes, to serve which other materials would require much more labour and preparation. The Bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful production of the tropics, and one of nature’s most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. ~ Page 59

THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO
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