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It's a very, very good dinner rabbit, and hardbake, and coconut and you needn't mind us knowing you're poor, because we know honourable poverty is no disgrace, and I could have gone on much longer, but he interrupted me to say 'Upon my word! And what's your name, eh?
He heard the breeze sigh, far up, in the leaves of the coconut trees. How long would it be? It was awful. He heard a hoarse laugh. "Wonders will never cease. It's not often you play yourself a tune, Mac." Walker stood at the window, red-faced, bluff and jovial. "Well, you see I'm alive and kicking. What were you playing for?" Walker came in. "Nerves a bit dicky, eh?
The meat of the coconut together with its milk comes nearer to the chemical composition of human milk than any other food in existence. Vegetables They should not be taken in large quantities and only in combination cooked or raw vegetables. As a dressing use lemon juice and olive oil. Peas and beans in the green state differ very much from their chemical composition in the ripened state.
At the time of Hayes' visit the people were in sore straits, and on the brink of actual starvation, for although there were fish and turtle in plenty, they had not the strength to catch them. A few months before, a cyclone had destroyed nearly all the coconut trees, and an epidemic followed it, and carried off half the scanty population.
The coconut is the sole representative of this group which is connected with Asia and the Malayan region, but there is no manifest reason why other members of the same group could not have established themselves there, and maintained an existence under conditions, which are not at all unfavorable to them.
Every man received one coconut daily, and two batatas, which they baked in the ashes of the coco shells; and they caught some fish on the way, and collected a little rain-water. During the day they directed their course by the sun, and at night by the stars. A storm destroyed the boats.
Once as he and I slept Selema put a little piece of old coconut the last that was left into my hand, and slipped over the side to die, but Manaia heard her, and, although he was very weak, he roused and caught her as she sank. Two days before that on which the ship found us Manaia shot a small shark which was following the boat.
This juice is heated by putting smooth hot stones in the vessel that contains it, and the tarro is then mixed with it and kept constantly stirring to prevent burning till it is ready, which is known by the coconut juice turning to a clear oil. Wednesday 25. Iddeah was very uneasy today on account of her youngest child being ill.
I bent for a half-drunk drinking coconut, but Aimoku kicked it out of my shaking fingers, and Humuhumu smote me with the heel of his hand on my neck. "They walked before me, side by side, their faces solemn and black, and I walked at their heels.
He climbed stiffly down the ladder and was rowed to a little cove. The coconut trees came down to the water's edge, not in rows, but spaced out with an ordered formality. They were like a ballet of spinsters, elderly but flippant, standing in affected attitudes with the simpering graces of a bygone age.
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