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the teeth that those of a man at the age of twenty-five are often 

 quite destroyed. 



Meyen states that " on all the coasts of the East Indies and 

 the adjacent South Sea Islands, the Philippines, the Carolinas, 



the Marian, and Society Islands, where chewing the Betel is 

 a more or less common practice, the Areca Palm is planted 

 near the dwellings, where it, in company with the Banana, 

 forms a beautiful object. In the town of Manilla we find the 



Fig. 11.— The abeca palm. 



Betel Palms planted in regular rows before the houses ; and 

 Plantains, Anona squamosa, Averrhoa Bilimbi, and other 

 tropical trees grow between them. 



" In consequence of the enormous consumption of Betel in 

 the Indian Peninsulas and in China, the Betel nut forms a 

 very extensive branch of traffic. The export of it to China 

 from the Eastern Peninsula and Sumatra is very large. Su- 

 matra fuinishea yearly at least between 40,000 and 00,000 



pikels (a pikel is 133J lbs. Eughsh), which are shipped from 

 May until August. Sumatra together with the adjacent coun- 

 tries, indeed, exports 80,000 or 90,000 pikela annually, which 

 for the most part go to China. 



" The Areca Palm, although probably wUd only on the 

 Sunda Isles and the adjacent Philippines, is most extensively 

 cultivated not only in Sumatra but iu India. In Ceylon, and 

 especially throughout Malabar, and still higher up the coast, 



