rOCOA-NUT TREE. 



suflicieiit for thviv lavuiirite and uiuveraui food, 



Be^des vlii£g$ur» amckj ke*j tlietdddy yields 



abundance of jaggery or sugar. The toddy^. 

 being colleeted in a ealaljasli, as before men- 

 tioned, in M liich a few pieces of the bark of the 

 Allghas (Helknia Allufj/ms, Linn.) had been 

 placed, a mpfity <jf weet tOiWy j^tdcwsf^ 



mornin^^i and e\ filings ; but Jjasiticular care is 

 re(|uired that the v<jssels Ijc regubirly elianged, 

 and that none arc empioyt'd iiuh i^s tliey have been 

 well cleaned and dried. Eight gallons of sweet 

 tod%> boiled ews^sbw fij?6, yi^ld Iwo gallons 

 of a very k^^iis li^nilJ^^edi^ Pemii, or honey, 

 nr jiiggerv, or sugar-wjiter ; \vhich cjuaiitity, 

 lieing again boik-d, a speei(is of eoiir<t! brow n 

 sugar, called jaggery, which is formed into 

 round cakes, aiid disbd in the Bmlk^ 4f iti^ hnts ; 

 and, in order to preserve it fuefe frto liumidity, 

 each cake of jaggery is tied up in pieces of dried 

 banana leavc^^, separately, and kept in snH)ky 

 places, unless required for family nse or the 

 mwtktU Juggery is exported ft0«tt Cfrytea i0 

 mAom paoM «tf Indk> 1^ tEe liatlmor a jaggery 

 is drawn from the Kittul tree, t!ie Caryota urens 

 of Linmeiis, and is considertul to possess more 

 saccharine properties than that produced from 

 th« Cocoa nucifera. The jnggery-mate$ are 



