126 Art. Vir.— A. Matsumum: 



made underneath, over which it remains for several hours, till it 

 becomes smoke-dried, and then it is fit for eating without any 

 further dressing, and would keep a couple of days, though certain- 

 ly not so well-flavoured as when eaten fresh. "i 



Besides, the natives of Palau get a syrup, which is called 

 marasis by the natives, by boifing down the coconut juice. The 

 syrup thus obtained is diluted with water and drunk, or used in 

 the preparation of various kinds of food. 



In Palau, an entire fish, roasted or otherwise, is served on a 

 wooden plate and the participants in a meal cat it in common, 

 using neither forks nor chop-sticks. The writer, however, observ- 

 ed the principal articles of food, such as the taro, served separately 

 to each of the men and' women. Generally they take three 

 meals a day. In Yap, each member of even the same family has 

 his or her own pot ; they never share a fish as the islanders of 

 Palau do. 



B. Culinary utensils. — Of the culinary utensils used in the West 

 Caroline Islands, the pestle, the shell tool and some other kinds re- 

 semble more or less closely the ones 

 employed in Truk and other islands 

 of the East Carolines. But the West 

 Caroline group has a far greater f 

 variety of utensils, in comparison witli 

 Truk, for instance, of the eastern Fig. 47.-Sheii tools us«i for ci^ting raw 



^-„.^„„ TT->i 1-nr I T • ^ n tare (a) and boiled tare (h), Talaii. 



group. In Palau, different kinds of ^ 



utensils are used in the preparation of different kinds of food. 

 This distinction is observed even in small shell implements, for in 

 Palau we find two different shell utensils employed in the prepara- 

 tion of the taro. For cutting boiled or baked taro, instruments 



1 G. Keate, " The Pelew Island.s," pp. 190, 191. 



