"Baobab" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a long, low-lying expanse of land, covered with trees. Away to the northward the ground rose, forming a plateau of coral nearly fifty feet above the sea, and on which many huge baobab trees were growing. The shores surrounding the harbour were low and covered with mangroves, but in and out could be discerned several lofty hills. Here and there could be seen isolated native huts, while at the head of the harbour clustered the thatch and tin-roofed houses of the German settlement, ...
— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman
... The baobab-tree of Africa lives to be many hundred years old. There is a yew-tree in England that is known to be over two thousand ...
— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes |
