Note 185 — V
Philip Askell Benton translation
Barth calls this plant ‘fogo’; Barth, ii. 408. [‘Fogo’ or ‘fowo’ is the Kanuri word, ‘marea’ the Budduma word, and ‘ambach’ the Arabic word. When dry the density of the wood is ten times less than that of water, and two and a half less than that of cork. It attains in two years a height of from 8 to 9 yards, with a diameter of from 12 to 15 inches. Cf. Tilho, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Sept. 1910. Barth states that canoes are made from ‘fowo’ wood, but this is not so. Cf. Benton, Notes on Some Languages, p. 51.]