On the treetops resounded the screams of the green parrot, and at times there reached them sounds as though of silvery bells, with which the small green-gray birds hidden under adansonia leaves greeted one another.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The rind of the adansonia digitata also yields an extremely good material; in particular, paper made entirely from New Zealand flax deserves consideration, being, by virtue of its superior toughness, eminently suited for "bill paper."
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
It bore some resemblance to the adansonia figured in the account of Captain Tuckey's expedition to Congo.
"Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2)"
George Grey