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for about half an inch thick, while it remains perfe6tly 

 hollow within. This kernel, which has a fine flavour, 

 and taftes like the liquid, is good eating, as , moil of my 

 readers have probably experienced. . 



In the plate annexed, is the manicole-tree ; 5, the 

 trunk fplit into laths ; C, the nebees to tie them together ; 

 JD, the leaf fplit from the top downwards; and £, the fame 

 tied into bunches ; F, is the cocoa-nut tree ; the figure 

 of oneof its branches; i^,the cocoa-nut in the green hufk; 

 and J, the fame divefted of that outer fubftance. 



But to proceed wdth my narrative. — While we conti- 

 nued in this Hation, one morning, being returned from a 

 patrole, wdth twenty marines and twenty rangers, and 

 fitting round a fpecies of table to take fome dinner with 

 the other officers, I was rudely infulted by a Captain 

 'Meyland^ oi the Society troops, who, as I faid, with Lieu- 

 tenant Fredericy, had taken Boucou, and who was Co- 

 lonel Fourgeoud's countryman and friend. The affront 

 confifted in Meyland's handing round to each a drop of 

 claret, he having indeed but one bottle left, and, in an 

 impertinent manner, excepting me alone, although I held 

 the glafs in my hand to receive it. Juftly fufpedling this 

 infult to originate from my commander in chief, rather 

 than appear to feek a quarrel, I endeavoured to make an 

 apology, telling him, I had inadvertently erred in hold- 

 ing out my glafs, not imagining 1 was to be diitinguifhed 

 from the other officers ; afTuring him it was not for the 

 value of his wine, which I politely relinquifhed to my 



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