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Updated: May 18, 2025
The most beautiful white sugar is now manufactured from the beet-root, in the place of the treacle-like sugar, having the taste of the root, which was first obtained; and instead of 3 or 4 per cent., the proportion obtained by Achard, double or even treble that amount is now produced.
Monstrous mangrove-flies and small brown-coloured 'huri, most spiteful biters, and wasps here and there, assail the canoe; and we are happy if we escape a swarm of the wild bees: their curious, treacle-like honey is enjoyed by the people. We landed in due time at 'Prinsi, whose civilised chief had laid out a clean path, lined with umbrella-figs backed by a bush of self-sown guavas.
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