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iently do so, perching upon this end and bringing a 

 proportionally powerful leverage to bear upon the 

 tipita. 



There is, however, Bomething that yet remains to 

 be explained concerning this process. Why should 



The anhimia. 



the juice th;it drips from the tipita be collected and 

 preserved ? The cassava is freed from it, because it 

 is poisonous. If any one drank of it he would die 

 in great agony — that is, if he drank of it before it 

 ■svas boiled. Before it is boiled it is a deadly poison ; 

 after it is boiled it is -wholesome sauce, and to the 

 taste of the natives a delicious one. There would 



