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reed is a favourite and staple article of diet among the abori- 

 gines. The proper season of the year for procuring it in full 

 perfection is after the floods have receded, and the leaves have 

 died away and been burned off . It is that species of reed of 

 which the leaves are used by coopers for closing up crevices 

 between the staves of their casks. (Byre, Jo urn. of Exped. of 

 Discovery, 99, 62). 



J. MEDLEY WOOD. 



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