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nut makes good cups and dishes. So you see the cocoa- 
nut tree affords almost everything the people in the hot 
countries need. 
They make their houses and furnish them from it, 
they get food and drink from it, for the milk of the 
cocoanut is a very pleasant beverage, and they use 
the oil to light their abodes at night. No wonder the 
people value this noble tree very highly. 
