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The palm wine is obtained by making an orifice a little 

 above the insertion of the lowest branch or leaf, into which 

 a tube is inserted for conducting the liquor into a calabash. 

 These calabashes are extremely useful for all manner of 

 household purposes, and are of all sizes ; the small ones are 

 used for holding their snuff, or dust of dried tobacco leaves, 

 and are generally ornamented with figures, sometimes cut in 

 high and sometimes in low relief, as under. 



The canoes are made far up in the country ; and it is said 

 to occupy one man three months, in the making of one ; 

 they are not however very dear. 



Aug. 31. Lieut. Hawkey returned, having been unable to 



