 | 1852 - 448 pages
...from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of rice and scraped cocoa-nut is boiled over a fire of cocoa-nut shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish formed of...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 ;... | |
 | Harriet Bickersteth Cook - 1862 - 102 pages
...the husk of the fruit, and its meal of rice and scraped cocoa-nut is boiled over a fire of cocoa-nut shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish formed of...with a spoon cut out of the nutshell. When he goes a-fishing by torch-light, his net is of cocoanut fibre ; the torch, or chule, is a bundle of dried... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1862 - 558 pages
...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 - Sri Lanka - 1878 - 228 pages
...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...with a spoon cut out of the nut-shell. When he goes a-fishing by torch-light his net is of cocoanut fibre, the torch, or chule is a bundle of dried cocoanut... | |
 | Sir William Purdie Treloar (bart.) - Coconut palm - 1884 - 76 pages
...from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of rice and scraped cocoa-nut is boiled over a fire of cocoa-nut shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish formed of...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,... | |
 | Sir George Watt - Botany, Economic - 1889 - 704 pages
...from the husk of the fruit ; its meal of nee and scraped cocoa-nut is boiled over a fire of cocoa-nut shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish formed of...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... | |
 | Forests and forestry - 1889 - 612 pages
...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...with a spoon cut out of the nut-shell. When he goes a-fishing by torchlight his net is of cocoanut fibre ; the torch, or chide, is a bundle of dried cocoanut... | |
 | Botany, Economic - 1898 - 306 pages
...tobacco, and fine grain with the 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...with a spoon cut out of the nut-shell. When he goes a-fishing by torch-light, his net is of coconut fibre ; the torch, or chide, is a bundle of dried coconut... | |
 | Anthropological Society of Bombay - Anthropology - 1928 - 1060 pages
...cocoanut is boiled over a fire of cocoanut shells .and husks, and is eaten of a dish formed of the plated green leaves of the tree with a spoon cut out of the nut shell. When he goes a-fishing by torchlight his net is a cocoanut fibre. The torch is a bundle... | |
 | Sugar trade - 1923 - 624 pages
...rice and scraped coconut is boiled over a fire of coconut shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish of the plaited 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 coconut fiber ; the torch is a bundle... | |
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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 a fire of cocoa-nut shells and husks, and is eaten off a dish formed of the plaited green 'leaves of the... 