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CASE appearance of the fruit. The trunk is cut into pieces six or 

 .51, seven feet long, and these are split into two. The medullary 

 matter is then extracted and reduced to a coarse powder, 

 which is mixed with water and strained through a , sieve. 

 The water containing the starch in suspension is then allowed 

 to stand until the insoluble fecula is deposited, when the water 

 is poured off and the remaining starch thoroughly washed and 

 afterwards dried, when it forms what is known as sago meal. 

 To prepare the granulated sago of the shops, the meal is mixed 

 with water into a paste and then rubbed through sieves to 

 cause the granulation, after which it is dried in the Open air 

 or in ovens, when the grain becomes hard and translucent ; 

 granulated sago is made in different sizes and is known in 

 commerce as pearl sago, or common brown or Borneo sago, 

 and is imported to this country chiefly from Singapore and 

 Sumatra to the extent of about 4,000 tons annuall3^ Sago is an 

 easily digested and nutritive article of food. 



Sago meal of different qualities, prepared sago, and sago 

 flour and starch are exhibited, also sago bread from Amboyna 

 and from the island of Saporoa. 



No. 101. Sago Cakes from Ceram, the staple food in the 

 Eastern Moluccas. Four cakes are f:aid to be sufficient for a 

 day's food. They are sold at a])out 10 shillings per thousand. 

 CASE This Case contains large spadices of different species of 

 52. Raphia described in their classified Order, a fine spadi^ of 

 Aucistrophyllum secitndijiorum, Mann and Wendl., from AVest 

 Africa, and a specimen of thatch made of leaves of the Bamboo 

 Palm {Raphia viniferd) used for roofing houses at Fernando 

 Po. 

 CASE Observe leaves, spadix, and fruits of Eremosputlm macro- 

 no carpay Mann and Wendl., from the River Niger. . ^ ^ 



No. 102. Spadis of the It A fiv Mta ^ahw {MauriUa 

 flcvuosa, L. fil.), from British Guianaii.rrt bi i1^ 



No. 103. Sail for Indian Canoe made of central portions 

 of the leaf stalks of J/««/v7/rt y?{?.i'«05«, L. fil., from British 

 Guiana. 



Observe section of trunk of Ita Palm from Para also fans 

 and baskets made in British Guiana of the split petioles. 

 Note also mounted specimens of the fruits, and sandals made 

 from the leaf stalk used by Macusi Indians in stony parts of 

 the Savannahs in British Guiana. 



