Sketches in Africa - Burning Shells for Lime
Native farmers on the Mozambique coast, near the mouth of the Zambesi river pictured collecting and burning shells in order to make lime to fertilise the soil they are working
Picture No
10425255
Media ID
46016816
Size
4557px x 3409px
(2.8MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Engraving from a sketch by H. B. Thelwall in The Illustrated London News, 30 November 1878, p.513
Date
1878
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Africans Collecting Digging Fertilisation Lime Mozambique Shells Soil
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