sago-palm

The houses were mostly well built, of wooden framework filled in with gaba-gaba (leaf-stems of the sago-palm), but as they had no whitewash, and the floors were of bare black earth like the roads, and generally on the same level, they were extremely damp and gloomy.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

It was composed of remarkably unbleached sago, which they make from the sago-palm, boiled down with sugar to nearly a jelly.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

It was very small, not raised on posts, but with the earth for a floor, and was built almost entirely of the leaf-stems of the sago-palm, called here “gaba-gaba.”

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The walls are of stone up to three feet high; on this are strong squared posts supporting the roof, everywhere except in the verandah filled in with the leaf-stems of the sago-palm, fitted neatly in wooden owing.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

"Yes," was the reply; "there are a great many members of this most useful family, but the one that will interest you most, after the date-and cocoanut-palm, is, I think, the sago-palm."

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

On pulling near the beach the whole party came down and waded into the water towards us; and, in exchange for a few chisels and files, gave us two baskets, one containing fresh water and the other was full of the fruit of the sago-palm, which grows here in great abundance.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

Here, the sago-palm, platanus, and tamarind, as well as the flowers and vegetables of the north of Europe, flourish so well as to promise to add permanently to the riches of this rich island.

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

The trees were now not the lesser growths of bamboo, lime and sago-palm that covered the foot-hills.

The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

Only a relative poverty belongs to a clime where the shaking of a sago-palm provides a large family with rations for three months, but the physical energies of Boeroe have ebbed to a point where "desire fails," and the unsatisfactory conditions of life meet for the most part with apathetic acceptance.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

In the Moluccos the staple crop is not rice, but sago, which is prepared from the sap of the sago-palm.

Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough