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Title: My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903
Subjects: Africa, West -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e smoking chimneys, tall buildings with a great num-ber of windows, and a great many men and women atwork. How beautiful is the sight of these palm-trees ! Howtall and graceful they are, and how splendid their fruitlooks! The palm-tiees about the village were keptvery carefully, and were never destroyed, for every yearthey bore fruits which brought a great revenue to thevillage. The forest was filled with knots of women seat-ed on the ground, who had clubbed together for themanufacture of the oil. After it had been manufac-tured they divided the pioceeds. Each little company was very busy. There would l)eseated women having three or four large earthenwarecooking-pots filled up with palm-oil nuts, which theywere boiling. After being thoroughly boiled, these weregiven to other women, who had before them a largewooden mortar some five or six feet long, about twelveor eighteen inches broad, and a foot deep, made of asingle piece of wood. The boiled nuts were put into 64 jMY ArnOI KIXUDOM.
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these mortars, and pounded)y tlie women wilh lieav\pestles made of the liardestkind of wood. Jhe ))ahn-oil nut has a very large andheavy kernel, of the size ofour walnuts, which is verythick, and exceedingly hard,so much so that I doubt ^•erymuch, though I have nevertried it, whether a nvtt-crack-er could break it. The kernelis covered with a fibrous pulp,which is about the fourth orfifth part of an inch thick,and which is almost literallymade of oil. It is hard, but MAKINU IALM-OIL. MANUFACTURE OF rALM-OEL. 65 wlien tlie luit is boiled becomes soft. The nuts grow inlarge bunches, and each pahn tree bears several of thesebunches. They grow near the trunk, where the branchess))ring out; and the nuts are very close together, severalhundred of them growing in a single bmich. These nuts at lirst are blackish, then, as they i-ipen, andespecially on the side toward the sun, become of a biightyellow, from which the palm-oil derives its color. After the nuts have been boiled and pounded, th

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