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TIMBER AND TIMBER TREES.
[CH. XXIII.

Table LXXII.
Trees found near the River Zambesi.
No. Local Names. Dimensions of Stem. Remarks.
Length. Diameter.
    Feet. Inches.  
1 Inhanpasse . 6 8
2 Pingue or Padpreto . 6 6 Resembles Lignum vitae.
3 Mocua 14 8–10 Forked knees. Good quality.
4 Imbila 15–18 12 Flexible,light. Middling do.
5 Murumanhama. 18 12 Pale red colour, light.
6 Mocunca 15–18 8–10 Grows crooked, heavy.
7 Mocôza 35–45 36–48 Yellow colour, light, wormed.
Inferior quality.
8 Mucumite or Sandal-wood. 6—8 8 Brown with light and dark shades of colour, heavy, crooked. Good quality.
9 Pamburo Shrub  
10 Peam 18 12–20 Red colour, shrinks and warps, heavy.
11 Mussangara. 12 10 Crooked, heavy, liable to split.
12 Taxa 20 20—28 Yellowish colour, heavy. Good quality.
13 Mocundo-cundo 36 40–60 Yellow colour, light, porous, used for masts, bark yields quinine.
14 Mucorongo 18 12
15 Raiz-de-Pingue or Pao-preto. ... ... Roots spreading, heavy, black as ebony.
16 Monangare . . 18 20–28 Resembles rosewood, heavy, crooked, used by wheel-wrights, and for blocks.
17 Mocasso-cassa . 18 20–28 Reddish-brown colour, hard, heavy, used for joiners work. Good quality.
18 Pao-ferra or Iron-wood 24 8 Red colour, hard, heavy, used for furniture and treenails. Good quality.
19 Pao-ferro or Mais-is-curo 24 8 Dark brown, heavy, resembles Sabicu. Good quality.
20 Pangira 30 26 Brown colour, porous, used in house and ship-building.
21 Pao-fava 22 12 Red colour, light, resembles mahogany. Good quality.
22 Metteral 24 12 Ditto, heavier. Ditto, ditto.
23 Mugunda 40–60 12–24 Yellow colour, straight, light, used in ship-building.
24 Morrunda 15 5–8 Ditto, ditto, ditto.
25 Mouna 15 12 Red colour, straight, moderately heavy. Good quality.
26 Luabo 12 10 Ditto, heavy, ditto.