COCOA-NUT TREE. 
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mats, into baskets, and into other useful domestic 
utensils. 
There is no part of this tree useless to mankind; 
and in those districts where they are careful to 
preserve it, the inhabitants refrain from cutting the 
chou , which, though a great delicacy, must be left 
entire, or the tree will infallibly suffer from the 
injury. 
