The infant is swung to sleep in a rude net of coir-string made from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of rice and scraped cocoanut is boiled over a fire of cocoanut shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish formed of the plaited green leaves of the tree,... Trees and their uses [by H.B.Cook]. - Seite 18von Harriet Bickersteth Cook - 1862 - 82 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1852 - 448 Seiten
...stalks. The infant is swung to sleep in a rude net of coir-string, made from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of rice and scraped cocoa-nut is boiled over...the plaited green leaves of the tree, with a spoon cu» out of the nut-shell. When he goes a fishing by torch light, hi« net ia of cocoa-nut fibre ;... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 Seiten
...scraped cocoanut is boiled over a fire made of cocoanut shells and husks, and is eaten from a dish of plaited green leaves of the tree, with a spoon cut out of a cocoanut shell. 11. In his canoe, made of the trunk of the palm-tree, he carries a torch of dried... | |
| John Capper - 1878 - 228 Seiten
...leaf-stalks. The infant is swung to sleep in a rude net of coir-string made from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of rice and scraped cocoanut is boiled over...cocoanut leaves and flower-stalks : the little canoe is the trunk of the cocoa-palm tree, hollowed by his own hands. He carries home his net and string of... | |
| Sir William Purdie Treloar (bart.) - 1884 - 76 Seiten
...stalks. The infant is swung to sleep in a rude net of coir string made from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of rice and scraped cocoa-nut is boiled over...green 'leaves of the tree, with a spoon cut out of the nut shell. When he goes a-fishing by torch-light his net is of cocoa-nut fibre : the torch, or chule,... | |
| 1889 - 612 Seiten
...leaf-stalks. The infant is swung to sleep in a rude net of coir-string made from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of rice and scraped cocoanut is boiled over...torchlight his net is of cocoanut fibre ; the torch, or chide, is a bundle of dried cocoanut leaves and flower stalks, the little canoe is a trunk of the cocoanut... | |
| Sir George Watt - 1889 - 704 Seiten
...infant is swung to sleep in a rude net of coir string made from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of nee and scraped cocoa-nut is boiled over a fire of cocoa-nut...with a spoon cut out of the nut-shell. When he goes a fishing by torch-light, his net is of cocoa-nut fibre ; the torch, or chule, is a bundle of dried... | |
| 1889 - 596 Seiten
...leaf-stalks. The infant is swung to sleep in a rude net of coir-string made from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of rice and scraped cocoanut is boiled over a fire of cocoannt shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish formed of the plaited green leaves of the tree,... | |
| 1898 - 306 Seiten
...from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of rice and scraped coconut is boiled over a fire of coconut shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish formed of...When he goes a-fishing by torch-light, his net is of coconut fibre ; the torch, or chide, is a bundle of dried coconut leaves and flower-stalks ; the little... | |
| Henry William Cave - 1910 - 274 Seiten
...from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of rice and scraped coconut is boiled over a fire of coconut shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish formed of...with a spoon cut out of the nut-shell. When he goes fishing by torch-light his net is of coconut fibre, the torch or chule is a bundle of dried coconut... | |
| Henry William Cave - 1910 - 268 Seiten
...made from the husk of the fruit; its meal of rice and scraped coconut is boiled over a fire of coconut shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish formed of...with a spoon cut out of the nut-shell. When he goes fishing by torch-light his net is of coconut fibre, the torch or chule is a bundle of dried coconut... | |
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