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regularly ranged horizontally, at equal distances 
round a straight smooth trunk. 
Ouviau, is a tree bearing a kind of almond, from 
which is drawn an exquisite oil for the hair, and for 
sauces. 
The Youlou, (Bambusa Arundinacea,) is a kind of 
Indian cane: Lindschoten and Acosta, call it mambu, 
or bamboo. The pith is moist, and something like 
milk: the Arabian physicians call it tabaxir , and the 
Indians sacar-mambu, and it is in high esteem through- 
out the East. Their plenty in the province of Voulou 
Voulou, gives the name to the country—bamboos and 
rice being almost the only produce; the former are cut 
down by the natives and burnt, the ashes being as a 
manure for the latter. Some of them are as thick as 
a man’s thigh, tall, black, and round, constituting the 
chief beauty of the country; every three years the tree 
bears a fruit of the size of a small bean :—flour, equal 
in goodness with that of European wheat, might be 
made of this fruit. This tree is as useful to these 
islanders as the cocoa-tree to the Indians: it supplies 
materials for kitchen and household furniture of all 
sorts and for all uses ; small wherries for the rivers ; 
roofs, floors, planks, and stays for buildings, sedans, 
or palanquins, &c. &c. 
Ampoufoutchi, is a light white wood easy to be 
worked, and the bark is fit for cordage. 
Anaze, is a large tree, and grows like a pyramid; 
the fruit is full of white pith, with the taste of tartar, 
and of hard kernels, like the pine-apple. 
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