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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: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni, 1831-1903 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Explorers Kings and rulers Animals Shipwrecks Slavery Tsogo (African people) Gabon -- Description and travel Juvenile fiction Africa, West -- Description and travel Juvenile fiction
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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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 - trees about the village were keptvery carefullj^, and were never destroyed, for every yearthey bore fruits which brought a great revenue to the^•illage. 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 proceeds. Each little company was very busy. There would beseated women having three or four large earthenwarecooking-jiots 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 Aveie put into 64 M Y APJXGI KIXOD 031.
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these mortars, and poundedby the women with heavypestles made of the hardestkind of wood. The pahn-oil nut has a very large andhe^y kernel, of the size ofour walnuts, wdiich is verythick, and exceedingly hard,so much so that I doubt verymuch, though I have nevertried it, whether a nut-crack-er could break it The kernelis covered with a fibrous pulp,which is about the fourth orfifth part of an inch thick,and \\hich is almost literallymade of oil. It is hard, but ^^.^^^x^:^J MAKING HAI.M-OII,. 3IAXUFALTUIiE OF PALM-OIL. 55 when the nut is boiled becomes soft. The nuts grow inlarge bunches, and each palm-tree bears several of thesebunches. Tliey grow near the trunk, where the branchesspring out; and the nuts are very close together, severalImndred of them growing in a single bunch. These nuts at first are blackish, then, as they ripen, andespecially on the side toward the sun, become of a brightyellow, from wliich the palm-oil derives its color. After the nuts have been boiled and pounde

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