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92 GRAND CAIRO. 
CHAP, gum was produced by them. The inquiry 
J proceeded more successfully when the next 
were shewn to him. He named the following 
instantly ; and gave the same account of them 
that Bruce had done; namely, Frgett Dimmo; 
Ergett el Krone; Ensete ; Kul-Quall ; Gir Gir; 
Kantvffa; &c. all of whose appellations he pro- 
nounced exactly as Bruce had written them. 
The Ergett el Krone, he said, grew near to the 
Lake Tzana, and in every part oi Abyssinia; 
but that it was of no use to the inhabitants. He 
described the leaves of the Ensete as resembling 
those of the Banana ; but the plants as yielding 
no fruit. They boil the root of it, as a garden 
vegetable, with mutton. The Kol-Quall he 
named instantly ; saying, that, on beating it, it 
yields a quantity of milk, which is poisonous, 
but may be used as a cement, capable of join- 
ing two pieces of stone. Its smaller branches, 
when dry, are used for candles ; and its wood 
serves for timber, in building houses. It prO' 
duces no gum'. Bruce relates all this; and 
adds, that upon cutting two branches of the 
Kol-Quall with his sabre, not less than four 
English gallons of the milk issued out ; which 
(0 Therefore not the Euphorbia officinurum oi Linnaeus. See Brace's 
Tiav. Append, p. ^A. 
