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shipped to England, and the work is all done 
there. 
8. " There are different ways of doing the work. 
Mostly the seeds are soaked in water until the 
pulp comes off, and the seeds are then strained 
away. In time, the dye settles down to the 
bottom of the water, which can then be poured 
off The dye is next dried and pressed, and after 
the rolls or cakes have been wrapped round with 
plantain leaves, they are packed in casks, and 
sent off to England or elsewhere." 
LOGWOOD.— I. 
1. After a few days Mr. Scott showed the 
children in his school some chips of a hard and 
dark-red kind of wood. 
" These chips are from another tree that gives 
us a useful dye," he said. ^' I might get some 
of the dye from these pieces; for it comes from 
the wood, not from the seeds as in annatto. 
2. " These are chips of logwood, and they will 
stain water a deep reddish-brown colour if they 
are soaked in it. In this way we get a dye that 
is much used for colouring silks, wool, leather, 
and other things, and for printing pretty patterns 
on calico." 
