Acacia Karoo - Adelaide (South Arica)

Title: Acacia Karoo - Adelaide (South Arica)
Creator: Pringle,Thomas (1789-1834)
Subject: Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- Adelaide
Subject: Trees -- South Africa
Date: 1822
Type: mixed material
Type: essay
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/109175
Identifier: vital:33082
Description: Transcript: "1822 Thomas Pringle, 1835 April. In The Koonap River Valley, Adelaide, E.Cape. p.126. "Among the mimosa trees (i.e. thorntrees) sprinkled over the meadows, or lower bottoms, the traces of their (i.e. elephant) operations were not less apparent. Immense numbers of these trees had been torn out of the ground and placed in an inverted position in order to enable the animals to browse at their ease on their juicy roots which form a favourite part of their food. I observed that, in numerous instances, when the trees were of considerable size, The elephant had employed one of his tusks, exactly as he would use a crowbar, thrusting it under The roots to loosen their hold on The earth before he attempted to tear them up with his proboscis, many of the larger mimosas had resisted all their efforts, and, indeed, it is only after rains that they can successfully attempt the operation."
Format: i leaf, pdf
Language: English
Rights: Pringle,Thomas (1789-1834)
Rights: This item is made freely accessible via Creative Commons license Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

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