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Sago

The farinaceous food of this name is light, wholesome, and nutritious, and especially suited for children and invalids. It is made from the pith of a tree which grows abundantly in the East Indies. In order to obtain it, the tree is cut down, and the pith extracted from the trunk, reduced to powder, washed, dried, and rubbed into grains for exportation. Large forests of the sago-palm grow in the Malaccas, and one tree will yield from one hundred to eight hundred pounds of sago.