This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...natives are very fond, although intoxication among them is almost unknown. The pith taken from this tree resembles sago, and mixed with the crude palm sugar makes a popular confection. The soft pulp of the unripe cocoa, used in the same way, is another agreeable pate. Oil for lamps is obtained from several plants by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...natives are very fond, although intoxication among them is almost unknown. The pith taken from this tree resembles sago, and mixed with the crude palm sugar makes a popular confection. The soft pulp of the unripe cocoa, used in the same way, is another agreeable pate. Oil for lamps is obtained from several plants by grinding and expressing the pulp, but oil from the cocoanut is the most desirable and plentiful. It is used for cooking, and when fresh does not impart a disagreeable flavor. The natives make it for their own use by grating the white meat that lines the inside of the ripe cocoanut, then mixing it with water and boiling it, when the oil comes to the top and is skimmed off. Sugar-cane, of which there are numerous varieties, is extensively cultivated on the lowlands all over Java, and is not prized by the natives for its saccharine juice, but is eaten as a sweetmeat. The process of manufacturing sugar is left to the industry and ingenuity of foreigners. Sugar furnishes one of the important and profitable articles of export. Before the construction, within the last few years, of railroads on the island, the heavy sugars, rice, and other products that were not conveyed to the coasts by water were carried on the backs of oxen, buffaloes, horses, men, and women. In this manner all the products of the interior reached the seaports. Within a distance of fifty or sixty miles from Batavia a clumsy cart, drawn by buffaloes, was, and is still, sometimes used for this purpose. Thirty-one million piculs of sugar were exported from Java during the five years ending 1889. One picul equals one hundred and thirty-six English pounds. The roads all over Java are exceptionally good, having been constructed, with much labor and expense, by the government, and by the l...
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Good. No Jacket. D3-A hardcover book in good condition that has wrinkling, rubbing and chipping on the cover edges, sides, and corners, some scuffing on the back, wrinkled on the upper back, some scattered foxing and stains, tanning, and shelf wear with no dust jacket. The Riverside Library for Young People, Number 7. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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VG. 16 mo. pp. 204. The Riverside Library for Young People Number 7. Dark blue cloth with white and gilt lettering/decorations. Very tight and clean; minimal wear. Includes a map of the island.
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