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Updated: May 26, 2025
Piacaba floats, resists immersion, and is cheaply made very good reasons for causing it to be valuable, and making it even an article of commerce with the Old World. Above this double row of trunks and beams were disposed the joists and planks which formed the floor of the jangada, and rose about thirty inches above the load water-line.
A little interval had to be left between them, and they were bound together by transverse beams, which assured the solidity of the whole. "Piacaba" ropes strapped them together as firmly as any chain cables could have done. This material, which consists of the ramicles of a certain palm-tree growing very abundantly on the river banks, is in universal use in the district.
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