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FIRST STEPS IN GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. 



stature and graceful shape, and with leaves of sucli 

 enormous size and strength that the midribs serve 

 for oars. The juice of the flower and stems in the 

 cocoa-nut palm is distilled into a spirit called arrack. 

 The fruit and the milk which it contains are well 

 known to you, but you have little idea of their 



CLUSTER FKOM THE DATE PALM. 



delicious flavour when fresh gathered. The juice 

 which flows from the wounded spathes, in this and 



