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ground into fine flour, or it is soaked, dried, and pounded in a 

 mortar. This flour is used to thicken stews or pahn-oil soup. 

 A very favourite vegetable dish is the truly delicious " palm 

 cabbage " (Vai, boro'). This is the heart of the oil palm, and 

 its extraction kills the tree. A sort of spinach is made from 



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 Showing circular clay houses, platform for drying grain, and lofty (?) fetish poles 



various leaves, especially those of the shrub Fortiilaca. Away 

 from the coast, the small sweet banana, which was probably 

 introduced from America, is not met with : the plantain or long 

 banana is the only kind, and as a matter of fact no traveller 

 seems to note any abundance of banana groves. Although the 



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