The Chemistry of Common Life: Illustrated With Numerous Wood Engravings

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The Chemistry of Common Life: Illustrated With Numerous Wood Engravings
James Finlay Weir Johnston
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2i7 Fig. 60.
verts the sugar into alcohol, and the juice Vhioh contains it into an intoxicating liquor.
In the islands of the Indian Archipelago, the Moluccas, and the Philip- pines, an intoxicating li- quor is prepared in this way from the sap of the gommuti palm, Sagtierus mcdicmfer. It is called neva in Sumatra, and the Batavian arrack is dis- tilled from it. The cocoa palm, Cocos wudfera (fig.
50), produces the palm wine, known in India and the Pacific by the name- of toddy. The mode of col
...lecting it in the islands of the Pacific is thus de- scribed by Capt. Wilkes : — " The karaca or toddy is procured from the spathe of the cocoa-nut tree, which is usually about four feet long and two inches in dia- ,^ meter. From this spathe _iU the flower and fruit are ^ produced ; but in order to procure their favourite aHjo«ntto(/5»*«— ThoCoooarnntPdm.
4-^/l^«. :«. ;« ^r>»^««»..» i^ Bcile, 1 Inch to 12 feet toddy, it is necessary to prevent nature from taking her course in bringing forth the fruit With this view they bind up the spathe tightly with sennit, then cut off the end of the spathe and hang a cocoa- Digitized by Google 268 THE LIQT70E8 WE FERMENT.


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