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Ka Han a Kapa. 



been collected as the medieval monk collected the soot of their more artificial though 

 malodorous candles to compound the jet black and lasting ink with which they slowly 

 and with loving hand engrossed those manuscripts coveted by the collector in these 

 days of fast and often careless printing. Sugarcane was another source of charcoal, 

 and the burnt caramel might vie with the nuttj- perfume of the kukui; neither 

 had the disgusting smell of some of our modern inks. Doubtless there were other 

 encaustics, but these were the chief ones. 



Pig. 73. A BrNnLii of waoke bark. 



