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Having got ten or twelve small spars to make studding-sail booms, boat-masts, etc., and night approaching, we returned with them on board. The purpose for which I anchored under this isle being answered, I was now to consider what was next to be done.
In the forests of Shupanga the Mokundu-kundu tree abounds; its bright yellow wood makes good boat-masts, and yields a strong bitter medicine for fever; the Gunda-tree attains to an immense size; its timber is hard, rather cross-grained, with masses of silica deposited in its substance; the large canoes, capable of carrying three or four tons, are made of its wood.
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