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The pulp was then washed in a straining cloth, the starch of the 
Koonti draining into a deer hide suspended below. 



































Fic. 72. Koonti strainer. 
When the starch had been thoroughly washed from the mass the lat- 
ter was thrown away, and the starchy sediment in the water in the deer 
skin left to ferment. After some days the sediment was taken from the 
water and spread upon palmetto leaves to dry. When dried, it was a 
yellowish white flour, ready for use. In the factory at Miami substan- 
tially this process is followed, the chief variation from it being that the: 
