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small quautitj' ot" oily milk ; it is in this state 



Hke ixiits m& 90n soM H EagfoiMl. In 



nainated hy ihv Sinn-alese Pol. or C//rrz/ cocQQr 

 ?ifft, tho kvvuvA of wliii'li is rodiicMMl to a very 

 small size by an instrument called Miromane ; 

 (a circle of notcli^ ^b^im^ tlm raised 

 ett^ <tf a «jf wtjoil ;3 tend tfetK^t^iduced 

 is placed in a cloth, and water being ]^red OH 

 it, a wliite jnicp, wln'ch niav with propriotv he 

 termed "cocoa-nut milk," is extracted by pres- 

 sure, and used invariably, either with or with- 

 out t&et 0^iied h&tnel^ in their various curries 

 and iai:i1Ugat&wies. 



I liavo never met with the water contained in 

 a cocoa-nut of a brackish taste, as has been as- 

 serted, although the tree from which it had 



of the oceajQ. Mr. Fmfeytda* mj»f respecting 

 some plantation?; of rocoa-nnt trees, which sur- 

 rounihid n vilhi<>'(> situated on Pulo Condore, at 

 the extrennty of a plain, that " although they 

 grow in great abundane^^ th€^ ita^ ta&@7&ti)a1^ 

 ittthe^lejairai^d th^r itnit, as well th^ fluid it 

 eou tains, has a peculiar and rather bitter 

 ta.^te." 



The shells of the cocoa-nut, when fully ripe, 



♦ Mission to Biam, page 2d0, 

 VOL. II. Y 



