Note 6 — Maize—Cacao—Coprah, Etc.

Sir Emerson Tennent, referring to these trees in Ceylon, is reported to have stated6 that the cocoanut-palm “acts as a conductor in protecting houses from lightning. As many as 500 of these trees were struck in a single pattoo near Pattalam during a succession of thunderstorms in April 1859.”—Colombo Observer.