SAGO MANUFACTORY. 



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The t&w $ago is imported in coiie-i>liuped 

 packaged, each probably weighing ab©^^^t twenty 

 pounds ; the mass is of rathet ^U- ^^Klsif^e^ti^e^ 



and of u dirty \\h'A.c rolonr, occafil<IIllH2 By 

 Ijoiiio; iiiiiiol(>xl with fi(j\ oral impurities, and the 

 whole is ciivcioped in the leaves of the Pan- 



feiTeitibmsUi^ III ki^e w^iQ^eai iabSf Ms^g ako 

 strained, after washing, throug'li clotb-straiiiors. 

 When tlie raw material lias undertrone siifBcicnt 

 ablutions, the masses which remain at the bot- 

 tom d[ ^ vmeth ^ colbeted^. iulo 

 pieces^ mi flm&i. mpm fhs^tm iiO- ^ sua 

 to dr}' ; being broken into s^ll smallBr pieces a^i 

 the drying' proceeds. 



As soon as the pieces are suiheiently, although 

 ItiU not always thoroughly, dry , they are pounded 

 md ^iftediip^n Ic^g beaeli^^ €itoiigb Amm made 

 of the midrib of the leaves of t^e eocoa-^nut palmy 



native hmts Mta 'Btrntso^ end ii at this fi^tttdm^nt 



during a scart-ity of rice by -^e posrer class of people. 



* In the list of tqaports published in the Singapore Chronicle* 

 the raw sago ib usually designated as sago tiiniping, (tani|}iiig 

 signifying a package, from the raw sago, hemg always im- 

 ported wrapt in the leaves of the Pandanus tree ;) it is ixth 

 .portied in this country by fleets of ten boats, or even more, 

 Imving to the amount of twenty thousand taniplngs or pack- 

 ages on board ; the packages vary in weight, some weighing 

 more and some less to the pceuh 



