cabbage-palm

• “I was rather surprised to find some cabbage-palm trees”

  Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York

• “Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander; and in the evening the gentlemen returned, with an account that what had been taken for cocoa-nut trees were a small kind of cabbage-palm, and that, excepting about fourteen or fifteen plants, nothing could be obtained which was worth bringing away.”

  Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook

• “The path which led up to the intrenchment, lay across fields of “phormium” and a grove of beautiful trees, the “kai-kateas” with persistent leaves and red berries; “dracaenas australis,” the “ti-trees” of the natives, whose crown is a graceful counterpart of the cabbage-palm, and”

  In Search of the Castaways

• “There were palms and wild figs in abundance, and with cabbage-palm hearts as a substitute their meat diet was abandoned.”

  The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series

• “So, with full water-casks, a renewed store of figs, cabbage-palm tops, and other vegetables, the safari pushed into the desert, going forward day and night.”

  The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series

• “One of them performed on a kind of stringed instrument, made out of the stem of a cabbage-palm, and about two feet, or two feet and a half, in length.”

  The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands

• “He had also, his food to obtain and to cook -- goat's flesh or cray-fish, which he boiled in his large sauce-pan; and to gather the tender tops of the cabbage-palm or other vegetables, for bread.”

  Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages

• “It is uncrossable for horses, and the intervening parts are crowded with fine large weeping tea-trees, large Leichhardt-trees, tall cabbage-palm, pandanus, and other trees.”

  Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills

• “Their plantations of cabbage-palm, bananas, and cocoa-trees stand out in welcome relief from the gloomy background of the forest.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “Scattered here and there over the meadows were the dead or fallen trunks of another variety, the cabbage-palm, the green heart of which had long formed a staple article of diet for the Insurrectos.”

  Rainbow's End

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