138 Art- Vil.— A. Mntsiimura: 



from coral reefs. The vessel in which it is kept is either a 



bamboo tub? some 25 cm. long and 5 cm. in calibre, or it is ono 



made of coconut shell. The bamboo tube has both ends, or one 



^j end when there is a knot at the 



^ other end, closed and a small 



hole bored at one end so as to 



sprinkle out the linie contain- 



' ^ ^ ed within (Fig. 62, a and h). 



Usually the coconut vessel has 



also a small hole made on top for 



the same purpose, while it has 

 .1« 



a larger hole at the bottom for 



putting lime in. Of course, the 

 liole is stopped with a wooden 

 plug when lime is in the vessel 

 .^^^^^r (Fig. 62, c). The vessel is some- 



Fig. 62.— Bamboo cylinders and coconut tiuiCS CarVCd, thougll not SO skil- 

 vessel for lime, Palau. „ -.^ ,, „ i • tvt 



luUy as those round m JNew 

 Guinea or in the Malay Archipelago. In the West Carolines, we 

 failed to see wooden or tortoise-shell spatulas for handling lime 

 so finely designed as those met with among the natives of New 

 Guinea, though there are simple ones made of tortoise-shell in 

 Palau. 



Some betel-nuts, fresh betel-pepper leaves for rolling pieces of 

 the nut in, knives, tobacco, etc., are all carried in a basket which 

 is plaited of leaves and of which mention has already been made- 

 (Fig. 61). Indeed, "no man stirred abroad without his basket of 

 beetle-nut"! (l»ls. XX, XXV). 



The betel-pepper is a plant allied to the Piper methysticum 



1 (i. Keate. "The Pelew Islands," p. 311. 



