"Ivory coast" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... these two points is what is called the ivory coast of Guinea: After which is the gold coast to Cape St Pauls; and ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... describes an affection of the bones of the face known as anakhre or goundron (gros-nez). It is so common that about one per cent of the natives of certain villages on the Ivory Coast, West Africa, are subject to it. As a rule the earliest symptoms in childhood are: more or less persistent headache, particularly frontal, sanguineous and purulent discharge from the nostrils, and the formation of symmetric swellings the size of ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... Coast supplies palm oil and kernel oil, and for automobile tires, rubber. But still to it there cling the mystery, the hazard, the cruelty of those earlier times. It is not of palm oil and rubber one thinks when he reads on the ship's itinerary, "the Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast, the Bight of Benin, and ...
— The Congo and Coasts of Africa • Richard Harding Davis
... form: Republic of Cote d'Ivoire conventional short form: Cote d'Ivoire local long form: Republique de Cote d'Ivoire local short form: Cote d'Ivoire note: pronounced coat-div-whar former: Ivory Coast ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... long form: Republic of Cote d'Ivoire conventional short form: Cote d'Ivoire local long form: Republique de Cote d'Ivoire local short form: Cote d'Ivoire former: Ivory Coast ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency |
