. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. 13. ACACIAS Via. LEAVES, BLOSSOM, AND FRUITOF THE EUCAL1PTU3. The Cocoanut Palm (1) and the Bread-frnit tree (2), are almostuniversally met with throughout Polynesia. The former has been largelyspread by the sea, w^hich casts the fruit upon lowcoral islands as soon as they emerge above the sur-face. No plant grows more readily, or is moreuseful. The wood supplies material for
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. 13. ACACIAS Via. LEAVES, BLOSSOM, AND FRUITOF THE EUCAL1PTU3. The Cocoanut Palm (1) and the Bread-frnit tree (2), are almostuniversally met with throughout Polynesia. The former has been largelyspread by the sea, w^hich casts the fruit upon lowcoral islands as soon as they emerge above the sur-face. No plant grows more readily, or is moreuseful. The wood supplies material for house-building, for drums, and for carved work. Theleaves are used in thatching, for making shades,fences, the ceiling of rooms, and baskets. The leaf-lets are sometimes employed to write upon with ametal style. Brooms, brushes, and the teeth ofcombs are made from the woody fibres of the valuable food furnished by the albumen and milkof the nut, the excellent vessels made from theshell, and the rope and cloth manufactured from theexternal fibre, by no means exhaust the uses of thisvaluable tree. The Bread-fruit tree (the species withincised leaves) in many islands affords the chieffood of the people, esp
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