BREAKING CLOVES FROM THE STEMS : ZANZIBAR 



The clove, as we know it. is the partially developed bud of a tree which grows to a height 

 of about 15 feet. These buds are produced in great profusion in clusters. These clusters 

 are gathered and dried, turning from red to brown. The unexpanded corolla forms the head 

 and the calix the stem of the clove. Once dried, the cluster of cloves is broken from the 

 stem by pressing them against the palm of the hand. The woman in the middle foreground 

 is demonstrating the process. 



"Marchaunt adventurers, chanting at the wind- 

 lass, 

 Early in the morning, as we slipped from 

 Plymouth Sound, 

 All for adventure in the great New Regions, 

 All for Eldorado and to sail the world 

 around ! 

 Sing! the red of sunrise ripples round the 

 bows again. 

 Marchaunt adventurers, O sing, we're out- 

 ward bound, 

 All to stuff the sunset in our old black galleon ; 

 All to seek the merchandise that no man 

 ever found !" 



Well might he sing of Drake, and 

 Hawkins, and Greenville, and Oxenham 

 meeting, with their little 200-ton ships, 

 the great galleys of Spain and defeating 

 them ! But the prizes they captured were 

 galleons laden with cloves, and ginger, 

 and pepper, and frankincense, and drag- 

 on's blood, and cinnamon, and when these 

 cargoes were found they asked not for 

 doubloons. 



Motley, in his "History of the United 

 Netherlands," emphasizes this point very 



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