Note 259 — CONTENTS. (continued 5)

The nut is edible, after being roasted and the kernel pounded with salt.259 It is used in the place of fish when sojourning in the mountain, and the day when the eye bulges out for [want of] fish. This is also used as medicine for rubbing on the body, if the disease be sores on the body or on the head. This was also used for lamp light in the olden times. It is prepared by cracking the shell, leaving the kernel, which is strung together on the midrib of a coconut leaf (segment). If a feast were held at night in a house this kind of lamp was the light mostly used. It is prepared by stringing four or five sticks, when they are bunched together and wrapped in ti-leaves so that they would not burn out quickly. It is also made into oil by cooking it. When done the shells are cracked and the kernel taken and thrown on a stone or wooden board and a large block of wood is placed on top. This block is rolled all over [the kernels] and the juice [obtained therefrom] is the oil.260