libby-tree

Updated: May 9, 2025

Here are also another sort of wild jacas, about the bigness of a man's two fists, full of stones or kernels, which eat pleasant enough when roasted. The libby-tree grows here in the swampy valleys, of which they make sago cakes: I did not see them make any but was told by the inhabitants that it was made of the pith of the tree in the same manner I have described in my Voyage round the World.

William Dampier - A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699