Note 229 — Chapter IX · , § III.—Of their ... Strange Trees....
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This sentence is introduced on the authority of Duarte Lopez (Pigafetta, p. 22). The other tree referred to by Battell is the mfuma, or cotton-tree (see Tuckey, Narrative, p. 225). Dr. Falkenstein, however, affirms that the soft wood of the baobab is that usually employed for making canoes (“dug-outs”).