. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. illation of arrack ; if slowly evaporatedover the fire, or in the open air, the residue is a coarse brownsugar. The pulpy substance of the nut, when ripe, is sweetand nutritive, the liquid it then contains agreeable and re-freshing, and an oil of very extensive use is expressed fromthe kernel. This tree is, in fact, to the natives of Java Avhatthe bamboo is to those of China. Their humble dwellings arealmost e
. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. illation of arrack ; if slowly evaporatedover the fire, or in the open air, the residue is a coarse brownsugar. The pulpy substance of the nut, when ripe, is sweetand nutritive, the liquid it then contains agreeable and re-freshing, and an oil of very extensive use is expressed fromthe kernel. This tree is, in fact, to the natives of Java Avhatthe bamboo is to those of China. Their humble dwellings arealmost entirely constructed from the materials which it sup-plies. The principal posts or standards, the poles of theroof, the rafters and the laths, are hewn out of its stem ; andits leaves are used for thatch. It furnishes them Avith variousimplements, utensils, and domestic furniture. The shell ofthe nut is converted into cups, Avhose surfaces are carvedwith great skill and neatness into a variety of figures anddevices, exhibiting curious specimens of what may very pro-perly be called the laboiious effects of idleness. Thefibres of the husk, which covers the nut, are manufactured\ , 7.
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