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It is one of the principal articles of food at Ega when in season, and is boiled and eaten with treacle or salt.

A dozen of the seedless fruits make a good nourishing meal for a full-grown person.

It is the general belief that there is more nutriment in Pupunha than in fish, or Vacca Marina (Manati).' My friend Mr.Bates will, I am sure, excuse my borrowing so much from him about a tree which must be as significant in his eyes as it is in mine.
So passed many hours, till I began to be tired of--I may almost say, pained by--the appalling silence and loneliness; and I was glad to get back to a point where I could hear the click of the axes in the clearing.