Fiji and the Fijians . the Fijian, without any trouble but that of gathering, may bementioned the hgolago and the vutu,—two kinds of nuts. Concernino-the latter, which tastes like our English earth-nut, the natives believethat if the young leaves are split, the husk of the nut will be are also gathered in plenty the wi, or Brazilian plum, [S2:)ondias6 ?re FIJI AND THE FIJIANS. dulcis,) the wild fig, the kavika, or Malay apple, i^Eugenia Malaccensis^aiid the shaddock. The tomitomi, tarawau^ and daiva are different kindsof wild plums. The fruit of the pandanus is also used by the n
Fiji and the Fijians . the Fijian, without any trouble but that of gathering, may bementioned the hgolago and the vutu,—two kinds of nuts. Concernino-the latter, which tastes like our English earth-nut, the natives believethat if the young leaves are split, the husk of the nut will be are also gathered in plenty the wi, or Brazilian plum, [S2:)ondias6 ?re FIJI AND THE FIJIANS. dulcis,) the wild fig, the kavika, or Malay apple, i^Eugenia Malaccensis^aiid the shaddock. The tomitomi, tarawau^ and daiva are different kindsof wild plums. The fruit of the pandanus is also used by the remarkable tree, with its curious self-grown props or shores, is toofamiliar to need description. I have met with several instances inwhich the original root had no longer any connexion with the ground,while the tree was supported on a cluster of its supplementary trunk is sometimes used in small buildings, but is chiefly valuedfor handles of garden-tools. The leaf makes good thatch and rough. mats ; the flower gives scent to oil; and the fruit is sucked, or strunginto orange-coloured necklaces. The importance and value of the cocoa-nut is well known, and theuses to which it is put in Fiji are too numerous to detail. A remarkablefact, however, concerning this tree, may here be recorded. I am ac-quainted with two well authenticated cases of the nut-tree sending outbranches. One at Mothe, after reaching a good height, branched off intwo directions, and was consequently regarded with great second and more remarkable case was found on the island of grown about twenty-four feet high, a cocoa-nut tree struck outinto Ave branches. A man told me that when he saw it, one of thebranches had been blown off in a gale, and lay on the ground. Heclimbed up the trunk to the point of separation, but feared to ascend INDIISTEIAL PEODUCE, ETC. 77 the branches lest they should break beneath his weight. He guessedthem to be eighteen feet long, and
Size: 1708px × 1462px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookidfijif, booksubjectmissions
