The fruit yields a very palatable and wholesome kernel, whose taste resembles green hazelnuts.

By cutting the branch where the cocoa-nut grows--this nut is the principal fruit, and each one contains, as a rule, one cuartillo of the sweetest and most delicious water--all that substance flows down into the trunk of the tree.

This is tapped with an auger, and all the liquid is collected from the hole.

A great quantity is obtained, which, mixed with other ingredients, makes an excellent wine.

This wine is drunk throughout the islands, and in the kingdom of China.