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is thus extracted. The inner nut is then thrown aside to be 

 cracked for its yield of palm kernels. 



Mr. John Gow gives the author the following description 

 of palm-oil manufacture in the Kaka country (Dukwia River) : 

 " The fruits are cut off the palm raceme and boiled in water. 



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They are then put into a large mortar and pounded with a 

 pestle until the fibrous covering of the kernel is separated 

 from the latter. The kernels or nuts are then picked out and 

 put apart. The orange-coloured pericarp is put into a hollowed 

 wooden scoop or trough, which is supported on crossed sticks 

 at an angle of about 45 degrees. Hot stones are then mixed, 



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