andiroba

Updated: May 14, 2025

The men were out fishing, some far away, a distance of many days journey; the women plant mandioca, make the farinha, spin and weave cotton, manufacture soap of burnt cacao shells and andiroba oil, and follow various other domestic employments. I asked why they allowed their plantations to run to waste.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons