Note 271 — CONTENTS. (continued 5)
Reading edition
Concerning the body of the tree: It materially aids the necessities of man. For instance: It can be made into poi-boards as well as door casings of the houses in olden time; also as fuel for oven cooking, and so on; it was also used for canoes in the olden time; for sleds for racing on high sloping lands, and the people staked articles of value on both sides, as in horse racing at the present time. Such were the sleds of breadfruit wood.271