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There are two kinds of the yucca or manioc-root, the yucca dulce, and yucca amarga the sweet and bitter. One may be eaten raw without danger. The other, which very closely resembles it, if eaten raw, would produce almost instant death, as its juice is one of the deadliest of vegetable poisons.
In another place the vegetable and fruit-gatherers had piled up little mounds of bread-fruit, pine-apples, cocoa-nuts, yams, plantains, bananas, manioc-root, melons, etcetera, much of which had been gathered from regions at a considerable distance from their place of abode. Thus they had laid up store for many days, and felt somewhat elated.
There are two kinds of the yucca or manioc-root, the yucca dulce, and yucca amarga the sweet and bitter. One may be eaten raw without danger. The other, which very closely resembles it, if eaten raw, would produce almost instant death, as its juice is one of the deadliest of vegetable poisons.
"They go against my people, so that when Muata returns there will not be one left man, woman, child, or dog to greet him, not one hut left to shelter him, not a single manioc-root for him to eat. Hassan will let in the waters upon the Garden of Rest." "Eh?" "That is his word. He has sworn it in his beard, and these jackals howl it out. They talk of new fish that are to come to their nets."
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