duint'>tic Lx-oiiumy, besides being au excellent 

 jjiiiiiing oil, (for ^Hifife it is tttttdb ^ifibirPadr 

 g!\>!fig cmt neither sm€»ke nGrsmdlw1i6iibiumiBgj^ 



and haviiiu" a rlt ar Kriolit flanie,) It It^-^ce 

 had iiii additional value, and move extended 

 use at home, by the di!3C0\ eiy of its capability of 

 being raauufaetured into candles, rivalling wax 

 or 5permaeeti> ni 0iq «ame time witlioiit being 

 piuch higher ia price tlian those of tallow. Soap 

 has also been manidactiired from it ; and it is 

 Inrislied by the Asiatics, Polynesian^;; and otlicr 

 intertropical natives, over their persons, and at 

 Tongatafett, and other of #e Foljii'^a4 

 is used scented with sandal-wood aid iMtolferous 

 flowers, i>iviii5j,' a deli<i;litfnl fra<2,Tancc to the 

 llnwin^- tressi.'s and ele<;'ant persons of the dark 

 beauties of those fascinating islands. In cold 

 weather, (mtntlm tO' ntdst of the vegetftWitttkjJ 

 this oil becomes very liard, and requires to be 

 melted beloj'e ir can bo used for burning. 



The siii<iubir method of making the oil is very 

 simple. The nut having been removed from the 

 sliett^ h boitefl ia wa«^ for a shoit f «iiod ; it is 

 thm pmtii^^ lii a large mortar, taken out, and 

 pressed. The ?/i/7/^ as it is ealh-d, is then boiled 

 over a slow Hre, when the oil Hoats on the top, 

 which Ijeing skiunned oil', and afterwards boiled 

 by itself, two (|uart$ of <oiI i^ay be procured from 



