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Excerpt from A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, Vol. 11: Many of Which Are Now First Translated Into English; Digested on a New Plan
There is one fort which deferves particular notice, called by the natives libby trees. Thefe grow wild in great groves of five or the miles long, by the fides of the rivers; Of thele trees fago is made, which the poor' country people eat inflead of bread three or four months in the year. This tree for its body and lhape is much like the pal meto tr�ee or the cabbage tree, but not fo tall as the latter. The bark and wood is hard and thin like a fhell, and full of white pith, like the pith of an elder. This tree they cut down, and fplit it in the middle and fcrape out all the pith, which they beat loftily with a wooden pelile in a great mortar or trough, and then put it into a cloth or {trainer held over a trough and pouring water in among the pith, they flir it about in the cloth: fo the water carries all the fubftance of the pith through the cloth down into the trough, leaving nothing in the cloth but a light fort of hulk, which they throw away but that which falls into the trough fettles in a Ibort time to the bottom like mud; and then they draw of? The water and take up the muddy fubilance, wherewith they make Cakes which being baked proves very good bread.
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