I oo Coffee Cocoanuts Palm-oil Sago. 



full bearing in the fifth year and continue to bear for about 

 twenty years. 



10. Coffee is named from a re- 

 gion south of Abyssinia, named 

 Kaffa. 



11. The best coffee is the Mo- 

 cha, named from a place in Ara- 

 bia, and the Java. Most of our 

 coffee comes from Brazil, and 

 much of it is marked Java. 



12. Maracaybo (Mah-ra-ki'- 

 bo], which has given its name to one 

 variety of coffee, is in Venezuela. 



13. In Africa and Asia 

 Branch of a coffee-piant. are many kinds of palm. 

 These supply cocoanuts, palm-sugar, palm-wine, 

 and palm-oil. The latter is used in this country 

 to make soap, and perhaps some of you have 

 washed your hands with this very palm-soap. 



14. Some of you, perhaps, have eaten sago in 

 pudding. Sago comes from a kind of palm, and 

 a very wonderful tree it is. 



15. A man can live for a year upon one of these trees. 

 It seems rather funny for a man to eat up a tree, but so it is. 



16. Its preparation consists in cutting off the branches 

 and also the hard outside part of the trunk. The whole 

 interior of the tree is composed of a highly nutritious sub- 

 stance held together by fibers. This is roughly grated or 

 pounded into a pulp, which is made into flat cakes and 

 baked. 



17. One sago-tree supplies cakes enough to 

 feed one man for a whole year. 



