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hem-slept on palm-leafmats on the floor.
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coconuts. and starch~foodin mapriged the bulk of the native diet. Coconut’iment was
eaten freshigr:dried (copra). ”
ut milk served as an important supplementto the
scanty water-aupply during the
breast-fed-hy:the mother for a
coconut tremetare) When.
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root), and:
‘starch food
htubes (mokarm
gxgonths. Coconut sproute:are edible, Babies are |
time and then fed theifreshly collected:sap-of the
é:to‘ferment, jekaro ige.potent alcoholic beverage.
g:wererice, taro, arrpwrgot(n potato-like‘edible
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madefrom srrowroot, ig similar to maceroal). (See:
Reference % se 172 for prep
tened, and compressed into call
bn af;mokmok.): Taro-gootle powdered, then. mois-.
8, approximately.a:gat in diameter,at can be ~
kept indefinitalysin this form.
anne:for making
doughonte..; ay
Various.seaqifoods compriag pee most important pastof the native diet: Fish
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