The Badminton Magazine 1898-09: Vol 7 Iss 38 (1898)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 53
usky husbandmen, yams and bananas looked gorgeous in the plantations, the ground-nuts were ready to be dug up--and of this state of affairs deer, piggy, and monkeys were well aware, A short walk from the picturesque old ruined fort (one of the vestiges of the earliest English settlement) took us… … fields heavily cropped with maize. The corn was in every stage of growth, fresh and green, the cob sheaths adorned with tassels of palest green, golden yellow, or blood-red filaments ; in many cases the withered stalks had been stripped of cobs and leaves, in others they were laden with the ripened…
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