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round with a leaf, and”beats the remaining part of the spadix with a small 
stick. For fifteen days this operation is repeated, a thin slice being 
daily removed. The stump then begins to bleed, and a pot is fixed 
under it to receive the juice, or Call, which the English call Zoddy. 
Every day afterwards a thin slice is taken from the surface of the 
stump, which is then secured by a ligature ; but after it has begun to 
bleed the beating is omitted. The juice is removed once a day. If 
it be intended for drinking, nothing is put into the pot, and it will 
keep for three days. On the fourth it becomes sour, and what has not 
been sold to be drunk while fermenting, is distilled into arrack. In the 
pots intended to receive juice which is to be boiled to Jaggary, a little 
quick-lime should be put to prevent fermentation, and the juice must 
be boiled on the same day that it is taken from the tree. Twelve trees 
daily fill a large vessel with juice, which, when boiled down, gives six 
balls of Jaggary, each worth one caas. The cocoa-nut palm, during 
the season that it is productive, pushes out a new spadiz once a month ; 
and after each spadix begins to bleed, it continues to yield freely for 
a month, by which time another is ready to supply its place. The old 
spadix continues to yield a little juice for another month, after which 
it withers; so that there are never more than two pots on oneztree. 
Each of these spadices, if allowed to grow, would produce a bunch 
of nuts, containing from two to twenty. When the nuts are very 
numerous, they attain but an inconsiderable size, and are of little value ; 
and from seven to ten nuts may be considered as the average produce 
of each bunch. Trees in a favourable soil produce twelve bunches in 
the year: ordinary trees give only six bunches. From this it does not 
appear to me that the gross average produce can be possibly caleulated 
at less than fifty nuts a tree." - 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. — Tar. I. and IT. 
The plate (Tab. i.) represents three Toddymen, two in the fore- 
ground, and the other ascending a Cocoa-nut tree. The shed behind 
is a temporary Toddy-bazaar, generally kept by a woman, who is helping 
the figure, shown in the attitude of drinking, to another draught 
of toddy. ; 2 
~ The figures in the foreground are represented equipped with the as 
apparatus necessary to their vocation. The ropes, passing round the — 
. body of the man on the left side of the first plate, and carried on the ^ 
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