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always seen in royal cemeteries; as well as the Kuppoo, a large cotton tree, producing a very inferior kind of cotton.
Having seen all that interested us, we refreshed ourselves with cocoa-nut water, for neither here nor in the Straits does it go by the name of milk,[1] and proceeded on our journey through a very uninteresting country, in which we saw only fields of dried sawahs, looking like scorched-up stubble, with an occasional plantation of teak.
Madjaagoang, our next station, was formerly the dwelling-place of the prince whose tomb we saw in the Koobooran. About fifteen miles from this station are the ruins of a town of the same name, said to have been destroyed about the same time as Modjophait.
- ↑ When the kernel of an old cocoa-nut is grated, mixed with a portion of the water, and squeezed through a cloth, the liquid pressed out is called Susu Klapa, or cocoa-nut milk, and is [made use of to flavour curries and other native' preparations.
