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  • Cire Trudon uses a secret mix of palm oil, rice, soy, and coprah with wicks of pure cotton.

    Holly Cara Price: Weekend Horoscoop* for May 30-31, 2009 ~ sisters of mercy edition 2009

  • It will be observed that with the increase of coprah shipment, the export of cocoanut-oil has decreased.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • The average estimated yield of the cocoanuts, by the native process, is as follows, viz.: -- 250 large nuts give one cwt. of dried coprah, yielding, say, 10 gallons of oil.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • These Islands were subsequently many times visited by ships of other nations, and a barter trade gradually sprang up in dried cocoanut kernels (coprah) for the extraction of oil in Europe and America.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • British, American, and German traders established themselves on shore, and vessels continued to arrive with European and American manufactures in exchange for coprah, trepang, ivory-nuts, tortoise-shell, etc.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Seeing that buffaloes can be dispensed with in the cultivation of hemp and coprah, which, moreover, are products requiring no expensive and complicated machinery and are free of duty into the

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Besides coprah (the chief export) the Islands produce Rice, Yams, Bread-fruit (_rima_),

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • After two days it cleared up a little; I went ashore at the west point of Gaua, where the launch was to pick me up again two days later, as I meant to visit the interior while the others went to buy coprah.

    Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914

  • The products of the islands are coprah, coffee, corn, cocoa and, of late years, cotton.

    Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914

  • The monthly steamer had arrived the day before, had shipped a little coprah, and brought some provisions for the trader and myself.

    Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914

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