ofBot. Disc. I. p. 3) says: In corroboration of Polosstatement regarding the explosions produced when burning bamboos, I may adduceSir Joseph Hookers Himalayan Journals (edition of 1891, p. 100), where in speaking ofthe fires in the jungles, he says : Their triumph is in reaching a great bamboo… … 48 MARCO POLO Book II. Richthofen remarks that nowhere in China does the bamboo attain such a size asin this region. Bamboos of three palms in girth (28 to 30 inches) exist, but are notordinary, I should suppose, even in Sze-chwan. In 1855 I took some pains toprocure in Pegu a specimen of the…
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