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There was the drawing-room, kept for show, never entered, barren and blank; there was the room a little more alive where Willy smoked his pipe and kept his accounts, but there the crumbs, three or four, seemed to speak of the dry, bread-like days that wore themselves away; life there was too obviously dry and bare, joyless and mean.
Then their canoes, or woibakas, as they are called, enable them to procure food from the water, and give them the means of moving from place to place. No tree is more useful to the natives than the mauritia. Before unfolding its leaves its blossoms contain a sago-like meal, which is dried in thin, bread-like slices. The sap is converted into palm-wine.
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